Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous

Jul 27

Can we PLEASE do something about Iowa’s postseason trophies?

Posted on Monday, July 27, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

November 19, 2010: What do you want on your tombstone trophy? (Center: Sara Stoakes, one-woman championship.) The state high school softball tournament was last week — AGWSR won its first title in that sport — and the baseball tournament is this … Continue reading →

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Jul 22

Where ‘7 million kinds of pie’ is an understatement

Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, at 10:08 AM by Jeff

July 21, 2015: Please do not lick your screen. The traveling celebration of Iowa on wheels otherwise known as RAGBRAI rolled into Eldora last night, and heads to Cedar Falls via Ackley and Parkersburg today. Pictures from the ride in … Continue reading →

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Jul 14

On the Iowa DOT director’s “fewer roads” statement

Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at 10:11 AM by Jeff

The director of the Iowa Department of Transportation, Paul Trombino, said recently the state of Iowa is going to have a smaller road system. This potentially explosive statement has been picked up by the Gazette, but before that, the Atlantic’s CityLab was … Continue reading →

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Jun 15

Luther will NOT be disincorporated

Posted on Monday, June 15, 2015, at 10:06 AM by Jeff

The state City Development Board last week rejected the town of Luther’s petition to disincorporate. Right now, the meeting minutes don’t appear to be online, but there was a post about it on the town’s Facebook page with a copy of … Continue reading →

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Jun 13

Summer 2014 photos added

Posted on Saturday, June 13, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Here’s an update notice from January and thereafter that I never got around to posting: I have added at least one picture, and in most cases multiple pictures, to many highways in western Iowa from some trips last summer. New … Continue reading →

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Jun 11

Beautiful land. All 8,883 miles of it.

Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at 10:04 AM by Jeff

June 8, 2015, 6:49 PM: The end of a journey years in the making. Between March 20, 2003, and June 8, 2015, I traveled every mile of every current state, US, and interstate highway in Iowa at least once. (Some … Continue reading →

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Jun 05

Kyle Munson’s Iowa history road trip

Posted on Friday, June 5, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

October 16, 2012: Birthplace Cottage at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch. Like most famous Iowans, Hoover left the state before anyone recognized him. In last Sunday’s Des Moines Register, Kyle Munson picked 18 landmarks across Iowa to … Continue reading →

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Jun 04

New map ‘officially’ released; Dows welcome center is kaput

Posted on Thursday, June 4, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

September 23, 2002: Iowa Welcome Center signage on I-35 for the Dows exit (former IA 72). Jason Hancock recently saw the signs for the Welcome Center in Dows had been removed from I-35. Turns out the end of the welcome … Continue reading →

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May 26

Carnforth Inn Supper Club shutting its doors

Posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 21, 2013: The Carnforth Inn Supper Club. The Carnforth Inn Supper Club, an eating establishment west of Victor, will close on June 28. Carnforth, on old US 6 east of IA 21, is a map dot so extinct it’s not … Continue reading →

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May 25

We Stick Together

Posted on Monday, May 25, 2015, at 3:49 PM by Jeff

After the very short Memorial Day service at the Traer Memorial Building, I felt a little more was needed. Here is a tribute to the Sullivan Brothers of Waterloo.

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