{"id":5725,"date":"2015-01-22T10:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2015-01-22T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:25:19","slug":"why-not-stick-with-ahstw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/why-not-stick-with-ahstw\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not stick with ‘AHSTW’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walnut students have been participating in AHST athletics for years, but they just started in grade-sharing this school year<\/a>. The districts are likely headed toward consolidation and Walnut’s near century and a half of independence will end.<\/p>\n

However, while it’s the obvious answer, “AHSTW” apparently isn’t an option for the merged district’s name going forward.<\/p>\n

Both districts “agreed that AHSTW is something they don’t want to go with,” Green Hills AEA administrator Lane Plugge told KMA at the end of October<\/a>. Last week, in an Omaha World-Herald<\/em> article about expansion of the school in Avoca<\/a>, AHST’s superintendent said there would be a name given in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

The history of the AHST name has something rare (if not unique) in Iowa: A town’s name was added back in<\/em>. When the Avo-Ha district merged with Shelby (officially in 1996), the town of Tennant was included in the new acronym.<\/p>\n

If they’re not going with the acronym, specific geographic options are hard to come by. The combined district would be in south Shelby and northeast Pottawattamie counties. The “Nishnabotna” name is taken<\/a>, at least for a while. I-80 runs right through the middle of the district, so AHSTW could be like I-35 of Truro<\/a>, which has the perfectly matching nickname of Roadrunners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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