{"id":7956,"date":"2016-09-30T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2016-09-27T01:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:36:44","slug":"collins-maxwell-colo-nesco-put-out-feelers-on-sports-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/collins-maxwell-colo-nesco-put-out-feelers-on-sports-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins-Maxwell, Colo-NESCO put out feelers on sports sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an emotional plea earlier this month from one Collins-Maxwell teacher\/coach to continue sharing sports with Baxter if at all possible, last year&#8217;s interim C-M superintendent said &#8220;it&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricountytimes.com\/news\/20160922\/collins-maxwell-board-gets-first-update-on-athletic-future \">The <em>Tri-County Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that C-M has been looking for a sports sharing partner, and Colo-Nesco has given an initial response.<\/p>\n<p>Colo-Nesco joined the Iowa Star Conference in 2010 for the same reason North Tama did \u2014 it had become a small fish in its pond \u2014 but its closest conference-mates are in Tama County. The Royals\u00a0dropped to 8-man football in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Colo-Nesco board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricountytimes.com\/news\/20160922\/colo-nesco-board-of-education-discusses-sharing-athletics-with-collins-maxwell\">discussed a possible arrangement at its September meeting<\/a>, but wondered about locations for games, changes in classification, and new uniforms, the <em>Times<\/em> reported. NESCO stands for Northeast Story County, and &#8220;East Story&#8221; would work for combined Colo\/CM teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an emotional plea earlier this month from one Collins-Maxwell teacher\/coach to continue sharing sports with Baxter if at all possible, last year&#8217;s interim C-M superintendent said &#8220;it&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221; The Tri-County Times reports that C-M has been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/collins-maxwell-colo-nesco-put-out-feelers-on-sports-sharing\/\">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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956","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=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}