{"id":3339,"date":"2013-05-08T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2013-05-08T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:25:50","slug":"east-greene-south-central-calhoun-mergers-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/east-greene-south-central-calhoun-mergers-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"East Greene, South Central Calhoun mergers approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3340\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RCLboard.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RCLboard.jpg 400w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RCLboard-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 10, 2010:<\/strong> Now that the school in Lytton is closed will the billboard come down too? Or should it stay up as a historical memento?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The special election Tuesday (most know for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20130508\/NEWS\/305080066\/Warren-County-rejects-casino?Frontpage\">Warren County voting against a casino<\/a>) included at least two school consolidation votes.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson-Scranton and East Greene <a href=\"http:\/\/carrollspaper.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&amp;SubSectionID=19&amp;ArticleID=15167\">will officially become Greene County<\/a> in 2014. This is a smart name change. (Your move, Paton-Churdan.)<\/p>\n<p>Rockwell City-Lytton and Southern Cal <a href=\"http:\/\/carrollspaper.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&amp;SubSectionID=19&amp;ArticleID=15166\">will complete the consolidation to South Central Calhoun<\/a>\u00a0in 2014.\u00a0Both have been in whole-grade sharing for a while. Southern Cal won two football championships in a row in 2008-09, defeating North Tama and Mason City Newman in classic games. Lytton&#8217;s school building closed at the same time. The district occupies about 5\/8 of Calhoun County.<\/p>\n<p>SCC&#8217;s sports teams are known as the Titans. Oddly enough, not too far away, there is another recent pair of team-sharers that picked the name Titans and is ALSO purple, silver, and black \u2014 Graettinger-Terril\/Ruthven-Ayrshire. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinsoncountynews.com\/story\/1962315.html\">GTRA is moving to the Twin Lakes Conference<\/a>; its old home, the Corn Belt Conference, has suffered a WAC-esque collapse as schools consolidate and switch affiliations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10, 2010: Now that the school in Lytton is closed will the billboard come down too? Or should it stay up as a historical memento? The special election Tuesday (most know for Warren County voting against a casino) included &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/east-greene-south-central-calhoun-mergers-approved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}