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May 27

IA 14 to be detoured through Beaman

IA 14 will be closed between IA 96 and IA 175 this summer for a concrete overlay project starting next week, a press release from the DOT says. The official detour uses T29 between 96 and 14. The work technically … Continue reading

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May 24

Speaking of plagues spreading across the land

MLB traditionalists won’t like it, but the universal DH is coming The designated hitter rule is coming to the National League for the first time this year. It will vanish again in 2021 in the NL, with the division and league schedules … Continue reading

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May 22

Part of original Fort Madison found

December 18, 2006: Based on archaeological evidence found in 2020, this photo’s position is practically on top of a War of 1812-era fort. IA 2’s east end was moved west after the opening of the US 61 bypass. About a … Continue reading

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May 21

Reinbeck cancels Independence Day weekend

Announced Tuesday. 🙁 It is with heavy heart that the Citizens of Reinbeck 4th of July Committee and Reinbeck City Council have jointly decided not to have this years July 4th festivities. UPDATE: Dysart cancelled last week.

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May 20

Lincoln Highway program honored

October 23, 2019: An interpretive panel about Henry Ostermann, a Lincoln Highway Association official who died in a car accident east of Montour, was placed in Tama County in 2019. A press release from Prairie Rivers of Iowa (linked here … Continue reading

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May 19

Centerville, Knoxville, Pella losing their newspapers

The Centerville Daily Iowegian, Pella Chronicle, and Knoxville News-Sentinel, all of which have been around for about a century and a half, have become victims of the coronavirus. The first, which stopped publishing a Monday paper 14 months ago and stopped … Continue reading

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May 18

Traer Star-Clipper, 1883-2020

December 25, 2018: The former (and most famous) home of the Traer Star-Clipper, downtown Traer. “It is with extreme modesty that we take upon us the duty of editor, for we feel that its paths are not always paths of … Continue reading

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May 15

Mallard school gone

As covered here, here, and here, the school building in Mallard was a victim of declining enrollment in the West Bend-Mallard school district in northwest Iowa. The Emmetsburg News website has an eight-paragraph story about the school, ending with the … Continue reading

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May 13

Cronk’s Cafe closing in Denison

The pandemic has claimed Cronk’s Cafe. The Denison restaurant started in 1929, the WHO-TV story says. That would mean it opened right when US 30 was paved in Crawford County. The cafe is located where the north-south route intersected 30 … Continue reading

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May 11

Traer Star-Clipper needs an editor

Through a photo with a Gazette article about two Vinton-Shellsburg seniors who are Certified Nursing Assistants currently in New Jersey, I found out something completely unrelated: No one’s writing for the Traer Star-Clipper right now. Two years and two months ago, … Continue reading

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