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FOR SALE: 3 walk behind snowblowers…a 10 HP, 32 inch electric start, two stage for $500….a 6 HP, 26 inch pull start, two stage for $200….a 4 HP 22 inch pull start, two stage for $150. All are steel gas units. Call 712-790-1841 in Carroll.
Nodaway Valley’s Shane Breheny held a signing ceremony on Tuesday at Nodaway Valley High School to announce his decision to attend Southwestern Community College to run track and cross country.
Breheny was a standout runner for the Wolverines finishing 3rd recently at the State Cross Country Meet. He was a four time individual state qualifier. He also had success on the track qualifying three times for state in the 3,200 meters.
Breheny will join Atlantic’s Phoenix Shadden on the SWCC Cross Country squad as he also recently announced his decision to become a Spartan.
Jim Field visits with Tova Brandt of the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn about the Bjorn Wiinblad exhibit and winter events.
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The Creston Police Department reports two people were arrested on separate charges, Tuesday. 43-year old Jamie Foote, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center (LEC), on a Union County warrant for Probation Violation related to an original charge of Domestic Abuse Assault. Foote was being held in the Union County Jail to serve the balance of his original sentence.
33-year old Erin Wallace, of Creston, was also arrested at the Union County LEC on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear, on an original charge of Eluding. Wallace was being held in the Ringgold County Jail to serve the balance of her original sentence.
Creston Police said also, the Caseys General Store on W. Taylor Street reported Tuesday, that someone passed a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for merchandise, Monday. A Creston resident told Police Tuesday that sometime between 9-p.m. Monday and 7-a.m. Tuesday, someone stole a propane tank from outside his home in the 200 block of N. Oak Street. The loss was estimated at $25. And, Tuesday evening, a Creston resident reported to authorities that sometime between 2-p.m. Monday and Tuesday, someone took a blue and grey tackle box with assorted fishing tackle, a fishing net, Muck fishing boots, and two Baitcast rods and reels. Those items were stolen from a boat parked behind a residence in the 500 block of Wyoming Street. The loss was estimated at $800.
Today: Cloudy this morning w/areas of fog & drizzle possible; P/Cldy this afternoon. High 42. N @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 25.
Thanksgiving Day: Area of fog in the morning; P/Cldy to Cldy. High 45.
Thursday Night: A 30% chance of rain/snow mix through about 11-p.m; then P/Cldy Low around 30. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Friday: Cldy to P/Cldy. High 45.
Saturday: P/Cldy. High 55.
Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 42. The 24-hour Low ending at 7-a.m. today was 38. We received just under an inch of rain Tuesday (.98”). Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 54 and the low was 27. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 84 in 1953. The Record Low was -6 in 1898.
Tests of Iowa students in kindergarten through third grade show nearly 50-thousand of them are below average readers, but requiring summer school for those lagging readers may remain on hold. Iowa Department of Education director Ryan Wise says his agency and schools around the state are committed to addressing the problem. “We know that there is a lot of work ahead and we are focused on ensuring that every single student in Iowa does read well, particularly by the end of third grade so that they’re able to access the more rigorous schoolwork ahead of them and opportunities beyond high school,” Wise says.
Wise outlined his agency’s strategic spending plan for the governor yesterday (Tuesday). It did NOT include money for summer school classes for third graders who cannot read well. By state law, those classes originally were scheduled to begin this next summer, but lawmakers recently rolled the start date back to the summer of 2018. “I think that will certainly be a point of conversation in the legislature of when is the right time to have that requirement in there and then how are schools supported in that effort,” Wise says.
Wise is asking legislators and the governor to set aside five-and-a-half million more state tax dollars to spend on “coaching” and professional development for teachers in the early grades who teach reading. “There is a tremendous sense of urgency both in terms of the percentage of students that aren’t reading proficiently and the gaps that exist between groups of students — students who are English Language Learners, students with different racial and ethnic backgrounds, students with disabilities,” Wise says. “We know that there’s a lot of work ahead.”
Thirty-six percent of the kindergarten through third-grade students who were tested LAST fall failed to reach reading benchmarks. By the spring, four percent of those students had improved literacy skills enough to reach their reading goals.
(Radio Iowa)