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The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Thursday, passed a Resolution setting the gross load weight limits for certain secondary road bridges in the County. Cass County Engineer Charles Marker explained that as part of the County’s bridge inspection process, a consultant recommends any changes to posted weight limits based on the inspection results. Marker says there are currently 46 bridges which are below what is termed “Legal limit.” Even if the weight restrictions didn’t change on those particular bridges, the signs must still be put in place.
Marker said they inspect more than 230 bridges in the County. He says 46 out of 230 may seem like a large number, but percentage-wise, they are “Trying to hold our own” and keep up with repairs and replacements. Supervisor Charles Reiken said setting lower limits would create problems for some crop produces because they would have to haul smaller loads more frequently. The solution he said, would be to replace those structures with new bridges. He asked Marker if the issue was going to be more closely explored.
Marker says with the money that’s coming in from the State and/or Federal government for bridge replacement, it takes about three-years to accumulate enough money to replace a bridge of any substantial size. He says the money is not coming in fast enough to replace them, and while they’re replacing as many bridges – usually smaller length structures, 20-to-40 feet — as they can using County crews, they can still only handle about 3 or 4 per year.
In other business, the Supervisors passed a motion awarding a contract for the replacement of a 30-foot bridge over the Nishnabotna River on Lansing Road, to Murphy Heavy Contracting Corporation, of Anita, which had the low bid of $963,826. The bid amounted to 75-percent of the engineer’s construction estimate. Work is expected to begin no later than May 6th.
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Class 5-A
School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Dowling Catholic
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15-1
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4
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2
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Iowa City High
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16-2
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5
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3
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Southeast Polk
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11-4
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6
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4
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Muscatine
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16-2
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7
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5
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Ankeny
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12-4
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1
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6
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Mason City
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15-3
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2
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7
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Waukee
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12-4
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9
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8
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Des Moines East
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15-2
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3
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9
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Cedar Rapids Washington
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14-4
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8
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10
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West Des Moines Valley
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12-5
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NR
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Sioux City Bishop Heelan
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14-3
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1
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2
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Indianola
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13-4
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3
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3
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Waverly-Shell Rock
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16-2
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4
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4
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Cedar Rapids Xavier
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11-7
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7
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5
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Benton
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16-2
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2
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6
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Harlan
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16-1
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9
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7
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North Scott
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12-6
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10
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8
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Ballard
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13-5
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12
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9
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Dallas Center-Grimes
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13-5
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5
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10
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Perry
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14-3
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6
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11
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Winterset
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13-4
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14
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12
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Lewis Central
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14-3
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8
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13
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Western Dubuque
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14-4
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11
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14
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Clear Lake
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13-4
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13
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15
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Oskaloosa
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15-4
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15
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Davenport Assumption
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16-2
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1
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2
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MOC-Floyd Valley
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18-1
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2
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3
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Estherville-Lincoln Central
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17-2
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3
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4
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North Polk
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16-2
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4
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5
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Cascade
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17-2
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5
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6
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Bondurant-Farrar
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12-5
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6
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7
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Mediapolis
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18-1
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9
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8
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Spirit Lake
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11-7
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7
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9
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Central Lee
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16-3
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10
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10
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Nevada
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16-4
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11
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11
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Mid-Prairie
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13-5
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8
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12
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New Hampton
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13-4
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15
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13
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Center Point-Urbana
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14-5
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NR
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14
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Crestwood
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11-5
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NR
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15
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Waukon
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13-5
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12
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Western Christian
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18-1
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1
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2
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IKM-Manning
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18-0
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2
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3
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North Linn
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20-0
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3
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4
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Lawton-Bronson
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20-1
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4
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5
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Panorama
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18-1
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5
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6
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North Butler
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15-1
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6
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7
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Manson-NW Webster
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16-2
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8
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8
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Aplington-Parkersburg
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15-2
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11
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9
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Hinton
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14-2
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9
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10
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West Marshall
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17-3
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13
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11
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Pella Christian
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14-3
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14
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12
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Hudson
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16-2
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10
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13
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North Mahaska
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18-1
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7
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14
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Fort Dodge St. Edmond
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17-2
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NR
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15
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Maquoketa Valley
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15-5
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13
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School
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Record
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LW
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1
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Newell-Fonda
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17-1
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2
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2
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Central Lyon
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18-2
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3
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3
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Burlington-Notre Dame
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18-2
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4
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4
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Bedford
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18-1
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1
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5
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Ar-We-Va
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15-3
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5
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6
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Adair-Casey
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18-0
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6
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7
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Grundy Center
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16-3
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7
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8
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Meskwaki Settlement
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18-2
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8
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9
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Colo-Nesco
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18-2
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9
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10
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Janesville
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18-3
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11
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11
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Preston
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14-4
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13
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12
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LeMars Gehlen Catholic
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13-4
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14
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13
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Bellevue Marquette Catholic
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11-5
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15
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14
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Clarksville
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15-4
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12
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15
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North Iowa
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14-5
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10
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…WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY…
TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON THEN BECOMING CLOUDY. VERY COLD. HIGH IN THE LOWER 20S. SOUTHWEST WIND NEAR 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON. LOWEST WIND CHILL READINGS AROUND 15 BELOW IN THE MORNING.
TONIGHT…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW THROUGH MIDNIGHT…THEN SCATTERED FLURRIES AFTER MIDNIGHT. NOT AS COLD. LOW AROUND 15. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW 40 PERCENT.
SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 30S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 30S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOW IN THE LOWER 20S. HIGH IN THE MID 30S.
A judge in Douglas County, NE, sentenced a former Council Bluffs pastor to 30-years in prison Thursday, for sexually assaulting an 11-year old girl who had turned to him for help in dealing with a family situation. The Omaha World-Herald says 57-year old Efrain Umaña had been charged with first-degree sexual assault. In 2011, Umana was sentenced in Iowa to 35 years in prison for sexually assaulting the same girl as well as at least two women in Council Bluffs. The paper says he pleaded no contest to his assaults of the girl in Omaha in exchange for the prosecution’s recommendation that any sentence in Nebraska be served at the same time as his prison time in Iowa.
All of the assaults occurred in 2004 while Umaña served as pastor of Templo Monte Horeb, a congregation that he eventually left amid accusations of impropriety.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An official with a state athletic association says its board will vote next month on a requirement that coaches pass a course dealing with recognizing the signs of traumatic brain injuries. Alan Beste, the assistant executive director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association, told legislators Thursday that the group’s board will likely adopt a rule next month requiring that each year, coaches must pass a course focused on recognizing the signs of brain injuries, including concussions. Student-athletes with such injuries would be removed from play. The rule would apply to coaches of seventh to 12th grade teams.
The rule would take effect in time for the upcoming school year. A House education subcommittee was studying the issue. Legislators opted to not take action if the association approves its rule.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after a federal appeals court said the Obama administration is setting overly optimistic production quotas for the struggling biofuels industry, the government has issued new standards that raise production estimates for 2013. New standards announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency require production of 14 million gallons of so-called cellulosic biofuels made from grasses and woody material. That’s up from an 8.7 million-gallon requirement in 2012 — when actual production was near zero.
An oil industry representative said EPA was ignoring the court ruling as it pursued an “absurd” mandate for biofuels. The administration has said increased use of biofuels could lower greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. A spokeswoman said EPA believes the proposed standards “are a reasonable representation of expected production” of biofuels this year.