Members of the Atlantic School District’s Board of Education will meet 5:30-p.m. Wednesday in the High School Media Center. Among the items on their agenda is a presentation from Lisa Sonntag, with regard to the two-year Aviation Program being offered in the District. Sontagg and fellow Math Teacher Morgan Staashelm earlier this year, went Maryland to the headquarters of the AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association). They were given three days of hands-on training with the writers of the class curriculum, which features labs and flight simulators.  

Last February, the District announced it would joining more than 100 schools in implementing the nationally recognized AOPA STEM (Aviation Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) program in the 2019-2020 school year. Approximately 20 students are participating in the curriculum. The program course features two Career and Technical Education pathways: Pilot, and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones). All curriculum materials are provided to schools at no cost, thanks to generous donations made to the AOPA (The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) Foundation.

In other business, the Board will act on: approving contract recommendations for Jim Mullenix – Route Driver, and Jarrod O’Donnell – Asst. HS Music Director; and, on a fundraiser for the Spanish Club’s Trip Nov. 5th to Costa Rica (using funds from Taco Night activity) and a Boys Basketball Popcorn Sales fund Nov. 4-14 for Uniforms.

Other action items include approval of: A final pay App amounting to slightly more than $20,753 to Precision Concrete Services for the Washington Parking lot project and a Resolution accepting work on the project, the total cost of which was more than $3,658 less than the original accepted bid amount; SBRC Modified Allowable Growth for Special Ed Deficit (in the amount of $537,475, which allows the District to receive that amount in additional spending authority (last year the deficit was $541,615); and Modified Allowable Growth for LEP Excess Cost in the amount of $57,748, which amounted to $42,626 last year, and allows the Board additional spending authority for the excess cost.

One of the final items of business is to act on the disposal of District Assets. Both the Achievement Center and Bus Barn have old property stored, that is taking up space. The District feels that by getting rid of obsolete assets through a rummage sale, that will free-up more space. The sale is expected to take place from 8-a.m. until Noon, Nov. 2nd, at both the bus barn and Achievement Center. Some of the items include used Food Service equipment, old scoreboards, and scaffolding. Anything left over will be taken to Fredericksen Iron Recycling for scrap metal, or disposed of.

The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office reports a man from Dallas County was arrested last Thursday, on warrants associated with a July 25, 2019 incident at Sparky’s One Stop Store, in Bayard. Jeremy Evans, of Dallas Center was arrested at the Polk County Jail on Guthrie County warrants for Possession with Intent to Deliver Greater than Five Grams of Methamphetamine, Keeping a Vehicle for Controlled Substances and Drug Paraphernalia.

Evans was transported to the Guthrie County Jail where he is being held on a $100,000 cash or surety bond. K9 “Rage” of the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office was instrumental in the investigation of events pertaining to Evans.

(Radio Iowa) — An administrative law judge has affirmed the City of Spencer’s decision to refuse to renew the liquor license of a “gentlemen’s steakhouse” accused of serving alcohol to underage and intoxicated customers, as well as an underage employee.  In June, Spencer officials denied the Southside Grill’s application to renew its liquor license. The administrative law judge has ruled the city was “justified in concluding the licensee lacks the requisite good moral character to hold a liquor license.”

Spencer Police indicate that over a two-week period, an 18-year-old employee was being served alcohol every day she worked. According to police, the woman says the bar’s owner knew she was not 21. The bar’s owner has denied the accusation. The business has been under investigation since a late April car wreck that killed a 21-year-old from Estherville and a 19-year-old from Graettinger who had been drinking at the bar.

Police say video from the bar shows employees made no effort to check I-Ds before serving alcohol that night, although it is not clear from the video that the 19-year-old driver was “visibly impaired.” Police say video from the business shows it also has violated a state law which forbids performers from showing their naked breasts to customers.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A man who spent more than 25 years in prison for an Iowa murder that he didn’t commit is urging college students to help inmates who may be innocent. Terry Harrington spoke to Coe College students Tuesday, recounting how he was wrongly convicted in the 1977 shooting death of a Council Bluffs security guard when he was a teenager. Harrington had exhausted his appeals and was serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary when he met a prison barber who believed in his innocence.

The barber obtained Council Bluffs police records that revealed authorities had withheld evidence showing that another man had been a strong suspect but was ignored. Witnesses who had implicated Harrington recanted, saying they’d been coerced. The Iowa Supreme Court overturned Harrington’s conviction in 2003.

The Harlan Police Department reports three people were arrested, and four others were cited, between Sept. 24th and Oct. 6th. 30-year old Joshua James Dyer, of Harlan, was arrested Sept. 24th, following a traffic stop. Dyer was transported to the Shelby County Jail where he was charged with no valid driver license, possession with intent to deliver, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

On September 25th, 27-year old Dillen Brandyn Lee Hatcher, of Harlan, was arrested on a warrant. Hatcher was transported to the Shelby County Jail where he was charged with sexual abuse 2nd degree.

On October 4th, 51-year old Jerry Ray Young, Jr,of Harlan, was arrested following a traffic stop. Young Jr was transported to the Shelby County Jail where he was charged with operating while intoxicated and no valid license.

On October 2nd, 21-year old Joslynn Nicole Johnston, of Harlan, was cited following a traffic stop for driving with out a valid license and possession of drug paraphernalia. On Oct. 4th. 48-year old Sandy Paullline Coburn, of Harlan, was cited for driving while suspended following a traffic stop.

October 5th, 24-year old Austin Michael Parker, of Harlan, was cited for driving while suspended following a traffic stop. And on October 6th, 51-year old Brian Allen Sorensen, of Harlan, was cited for trespass and theft 5th following a call for service.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports a Pottawattamie County woman, 53-year old Laura Lynn Schubert, was sentenced to prison today (Tuesday), on drugs charges. Schubert was sentenced in Council Bluffs U-S District Court, to a little more than 7 1/2-years in prison (92 months) for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.

Schubert was also ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release. In October 2018, an Iowa State Trooper made a traffic stop of the vehicle Schubert was driving. Schubert was in possession of 90 grams of methamphetamine. A search warrant was obtained for her residence where officers located an additional 340 grams of methamphetamine. Schubert pled guilty to this charge in June 2019.

Schubert has a prior federal felony conviction for distribution of a controlled substance in 2004. The case was investigated by the Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Narcotics Enforcement and the Council Bluffs Police Department. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

Complaints about a suspicious vehicle Tuesday, in Coin, resulted in the arrest of a woman on drug charges. The Page County Sheriff’s Office received complaints about a vehicle in the 2400 and 2500 block of Ironwood Avenue, in Page County, or about three-miles northeast of Coin. The complaints came from landowners in the area.

When the K-9 “Lucas” was deployed on a free air sniff of the vehicle, he alerted to the presence of controlled substances in the vehicle. A subsequent search of the vehicle found Methamphetamine and Marijuana being found. 38-year old Haley Ann Haynes, of rural Coin, was arrested for possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Marijuana, both Serious misdemeanors.

Haynes was transported to the Page County Jail where she was being held on $2,000 bond, pending further court proceedings. Authorities says “This incident shows that alert people who “say something when they see something” can result in an arrest and take drugs “off the streets”. The Page County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the Citizens for calling when they saw something suspicious.”