When I wrote my resolution to visit every Iowa town, I noted (and then had to revise) the number of incorporated places “as of this writing” \u2014 and there was a reason for that.<\/p>\n
Center Junction in Jones County had a meeting about dissolving Monday night, and decided against it<\/a>. Had the town voted otherwise, it would have been the third Iowa community in three years to disincorporate, following Mount Sterling<\/a> and Millville<\/a>.<\/p>\n It turns out that residents of Luther, in Boone County, filed a petition for disincorporation<\/a> last September, but aside from that Boone News-Republican<\/em> article and the one about the ensuing city council meeting<\/a> I haven’t found anything to show this has moved forward.<\/p>\n More towns may have the same discussion. Iowa DNR regulations about sewer system upgrades are starting to bite tiny communities<\/a>, including Luther. Throw in the threat of closed post offices \u00a0\u2014 a threat that, right now, appears to have diminished and been replaced with drastically reduced hours \u2014 and the trickle of discontinuations could continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I wrote my resolution to visit every Iowa town, I noted (and then had to revise) the number of incorporated places “as of this writing” \u2014 and there was a reason for that. Center Junction in Jones County had … Continue reading