The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will meet Monday evening in the Media Center, at the High School. During the 7:30-p.m. session, the Board will act on approving: Open enrollment requests; General Ed and Special Ed contracts, Amended Contracts and Letters of Assignment, as well as Volunteer Coaching positions.

Resignations pending approval by the Board include: Jennifer Thurston, High School Guidance Counselor; Bonnie Church, Varsity Volleyball Coach; and Allison Berryhill, AHS Fuel Adviser.

The Board will also act on the second reading of a Maternity Leave Policy.

(Corrects date of meeting to May 18th – not May 11th!)

Members of the Griswold School District’s Board of Education will meet Monday evening, May 18th, in the Central Office at the Middle School/High School Building. The session begins at 5:45-p.m.

During the meeting, the Board will act on: Certified Staff Negotiations approval; Nutrition prices; approving bids for a van purchase; approving – Fuel Bid specifications, Technology Support Specs., Registration Fees and various Board Policies.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Severe storms may continue to develop in Iowa or eastern Nebraska on Sunday, but Omaha is no longer covered by a tornado watch. The National Weather Service’s tornado watch covers eastern Nebraska and much of western and central Iowa until 9 p.m. Central. But Omaha was removed from the tornado watch Sunday afternoon.

The Weather Service says the greatest tornado threat Sunday is in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. Large hail, high winds and a few tornadoes are possible Sunday afternoon and evening.

On the other end of Nebraska, more than a foot of snow fell in the northwest corner of the state. Near Chadron, more than 18 inches of snow was reported Sunday.

Deputies in Montgomery County arrested a woman Sunday morning who refused to leave a residence. The Sheriff’s Department says Shelby J. Olivarez, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 8:36-a.m. for Public Intoxication.

Officials say the woman was taken into custody after they received a report she would not leave a residence on East Grimes Street. When authorities arrived, they found Olivarez on the sidewalk in front of the residence and the property owner was in the yard. The owner said he advised Olivarez to leave, but she refused to do so.

The woman was allegedly impaired, with slurred speech and stumbling and swaying. She was offered a Preliminary Breath Test (PBT), but refused and was taken into custody without further incident. She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $300 bond.

Law enforcement agencies will be heavily patrolling the roads May 18th through the 31st (the days leading up to, and after, the Memorial Day weekend). During their patrols, officers will be looking to enforce the seat belt law, in hopes of reducing the number of crash fatalities.

Crash data shows that passenger vehicle occupants are buckling up more during the day than at nighttime. The two-week long law enforcement mobilization across Iowa and the rest of the nation, is created to heighten seat belt enforcement 24/7, and will focus enforcement efforts, especially between the nighttime hours of 6-p.m. and 6-a.m., due to the significant number of violators and fatal crashes during this time.

Over the last ten years, Iowa has averaged 5.3 traffic fatalities during the three-day Memorial Day weekend. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nearly half of the 21,132 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed on our nation’s roadways in 2013 were not wearing seat belts. That number jumped to 67 percent for males aged 13 – 15.

Buckling up in the back seat is just as important. Half of all front-seat occupants killed in crashes in 2012 were unrestrained but 61 percent of those killed in back seats were unrestrained. Keep in mind that those fatalities aren’t just statistics; they are someone’s family member or friend.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau want you to remember that the single most effective way to reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes is to wear a seat belt every day, every trip.

A traffic stop in Red Oak early this (Sunday) morning, resulted in an arrest. Red Oak Police report 43-year old Karen Patrice Rebitzke, from Oklahoma, was arrested in the 600 block of east Reed Street at around 2:35-a.m.  The woman was charged with OWI/1st offense and booked into the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $1,000.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —Strong thunderstorms are possible early this morning and continuing on into this Mother’s Day afternoon, with areas of concern along the Iowa/Minnesota state line and in western Iowa. The main threat appears to be heavy rain across western Iowa, but there is the possibility of isolated tornadoes from extreme eastern Nebraska into southwest Iowa this afternoon.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say it’s surprising no one was killed in a  chain-reaction accident on Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa that sent 32 people to  hospitals, Friday. The Iowa State Patrol says an earlier accident halted traffic on the interstate near Williamsburg. At about 3 p.m., a semi driven by a Portland, Oregon man who didn’t see that traffic had stopped crashed into the line of cars. It caused chain reaction involving four other vehicles, including a tour bus carrying 26 employees from a Cedar Rapids commercial real estate company. The semi burst into flames upon impact and spread diesel fuel across the interstate, catching other vehicles on fire. University Hospitals in Iowa City say 12 people were treated. Others were taken to hospitals in Iowa City and Marengo.

FOREST CITY, Iowa (AP) — The oldest building in Winnebago County has new owners, a historical society dedicated to preserving it and making it available for special events. The Winnebago County Historical Society now owns the 140-year-old Trinity Lutheran Church in Forest City. Local historians say it’s the oldest building in the county. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports church members have dwindled in numbers and the few remaining decided to put it in the hands of the historical society. The group says the building is in good structural shape and changed little since it was built. The society has agreed to preserve the church’s features although some renovation is planned. They’ll make the church available for weddings, funerals and special events.