The Griswold School District’s Board of Education is expected to act Monday on a Superintendent Sharing Agreement with the South Page and Sidney School Districts. The Sidney School Board is expected to vote on the sharing arrangement during their meeting Monday, as well. The South Page District’s School Board last week approved the sharing of their Superintendent Gregg Cruickshank with Griswold. Cruickshank also serves the Sidney School District.

Griswold Superintendent Dana Kunze had earlier announced his resignation effective the end of June. As we’ve mentioned in previous reports, if the arrangement is approved, Cruickshank would spend two days per week in Griswold, two days in Sidney and one day in South Page. Initially though, more time would likely be demanded by Griswold, which also faces the prospect of budget reductions.

BIG SPRINGS, Neb. (AP) – Officials have reopened Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 30 in the Nebraska Panhandle after closing it for several hours because of a snowstorm in Wyoming. KNEB reports both westbound highways were reopened Sunday afternoon. They had been closed at Big Springs because of road closures in Wyoming. Wyoming transportation officials requested the closures because of the heavy, wet snow that is causing problems in southeast Wyoming.

BIG SPRINGS, Neb. (AP) — Officials have closed Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 30 in the Nebraska Panhandle because of a spring snowstorm in Wyoming. KNEB reports both westbound highways were closed Sunday at Big Springs because Wyoming officials had already closed both highways at the state border.

Wyoming transportation officials requested the closures because of the heavy, wet snow that is causing problems in southeast Nebraska. The highways will likely be closed for much of Sunday.

Authorities in Iowa are searching for a woman who failed to return from a furlough for work release. 42-year old Shannon Balava VanArsdale failed to return Saturday to the Waterloo Women’s Center for Change Work Release Facility. She was serving a 30-year sentence for Burglary in the 1^st degree, Assault on a Peace Officer with Injury, Escape of Felon and Possession of a Controlled Substance. Her sentence began Sept, 2004.

Shannon Balava VanArsdale

VanArsdale was described as being an African-American female, 5-feet four-inches tall, weighing 219 pounds. She has black hair, brown eyes, a scar on her right forearm, tattoo on her neck. Both of her ears are also pierced.

She was placed on Work Release February 8, 2016 following a parole revocation. If you have any information as to her location, contact the Waterloo Police Department of Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office (or, dial 9-1-1).

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Despite all the attention on water quality initiatives at the Iowa Legislature this year, it appears unlikely lawmakers will reach consensus before adjournment over how to pay for it. Leaders in the split Legislature have fundamental differences over whether to use existing funds or to generate new dollars to deal with longstanding issues over Iowa’s polluted waterways. There is no indication they will reach a compromise soon.

Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House propose a plan that would use special infrastructure money and a tax on water use. Gov. Terry Branstad backs the plan, though it differs from his proposal to use money from an education infrastructure fund. Leaders in the Democratic-majority Senate have floated ideas that would use surplus dollars from the budget or increase the sales and use tax.