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Sep
02
Sing along to Onslow fight songs
This page about Onslow school history has the words to the official — and unofficial — songs for a district that was subsumed into the newly created Midland district in 1960. The school building is no longer open. If you … Continue reading
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Aug
31
St. Ansgar school will be torn down
August 4, 2015: Detailed view of the brickwork at the southeast corner of the St. Ansgar Elementary building. (Photo also used in May 4 blog post.) The St. Ansgar school district voted to sell its former elementary building to a local … Continue reading
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Aug
30
J is for Jamaica
May 15, 2011: Former Panorama Elementary building in Jamaica. The Panorama school district needed five different votes in the 1990s to reach a 60% supermajority on a bond issue to build a new elementary school, and it was finally dragged … Continue reading
Aug
24
Original Schleswig school demolished
I knew the old school building in Schleswig was on borrowed time, but I hadn’t paid much attention beyond that, and it’s a long way over there. I finally got the chance to pass through Schleswig earlier this month (Aug. … Continue reading
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Aug
22
Oldest part of Urbana school demolished
July 25, 2016 I need to get a picture of the 1912 Urbana school building sometime, I thought to myself. I pass it a lot, but usually at night, and it looks in fine shape, but you never know… oops
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Aug
19
Dennis Field ribbon cutting tonight
August 14, 2016: The new concession stand/restroom building at Dennis Field in Traer replaces two separate buildings. New cable wiring between the bleachers and the football field, and also some turf care, have eliminated nearly all traces of the track … Continue reading
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Aug
18
CMB goes MAD
At the end of a summer that saw both softball and baseball state qualifiers from Collins-Maxwell-Baxter, a three-decade sports relationship has been severed. Baxter voted unanimously to end the sports sharing agreement after the upcoming school year, report WHO and … Continue reading
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Aug
04
OABCIG consolidation vote planned
The Battle Creek-Ida Grove and Odebolt-Arthur school districts have a reorganization vote planned for September, the Sioux City Journal reported a while ago. Their current whole-grade sharing agreement dates back to 2009, making it one of the oldest active two-way plans. … Continue reading
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Aug
02
Another GR dissolution committee meeting tonight
The Gladbrook-Reinbeck Dissolution Committee* has a meeting tonight at 7 in the Reinbeck auditorium. The agenda is pretty sparse, covering the steps taken so far, including the map, and the June and July minutes (which were not online when I wrote … Continue reading
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Jul
27
New Riverside school opens in August
Two of my “beats” intersect with an Iowa DOT press release about turning the intersection of US 6 and US 59 south of Oakland into a four-way stop before the new Riverside school opens. It was supposed to open in the middle … Continue reading
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