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Harlan’s Sonderman wins at Storm Lake XC Meet

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September 14th, 2022 by admin

Storm Lake XC Meet
09/13/2022

Girls Team Scores

  1. Spencer 68
  2. MOC Floyd Valley 69
  3. Harlan 70
  4. Cherokee 94
  5. LeMars 135
  6. Denison-Schleswig 149
  7. Unity Christian 155
  8. Spirit Lake 225
  9. Storm Lake 235
  10. Algona 248
  11. Fort Dodge 329

Girls Individual Top Ten

1 Sonderman, Lindsey 10 Harlan 19:23.14 1
2 Morey, Peyton 10 Spencer 20:30.60 2
3 Mendlik, Lola 10 Denison-Schleswig 20:51.22 3
4 Krieger, Katelyn 12 Spirit Lake 21:14.96 4
5 Hamilton, Ivy 12 Spencer 21:20.01 5
6 Van Der Werff, Elin 10 Moc-Floyd Valley 21:25.98 6
7 Dokter, Biyanca 12 Moc-Floyd Valley 21:30.22 7
8 Morey, Emma 12 Spencer 21:35.02 8
9 Hulinsky, Rebecca 12 Lemars High School 21:35.93 9
10 Lubeck, Riley 12 Cherokee 21:46.66 10

Boys Team Scores

  1. MOC Floyd Valley 45
  2. Algona 71
  3. Unity Christian 107
  4. LeMars 124
  5. Harlan 135
  6. Spirit Lake 136
  7. Denison-Schleswig 154
  8. Spencer 166
  9. Fort Dodge 210
  10. Cherokee 254

Boys Individual Top Ten

1 Hulshof, Isaiah 12 Moc-Floyd Valley 16:47.91 1
2 Mirande, Trevor 10 Moc-Floyd Valley 16:54.76 2
3 Ramirez Parra, Joel 09 Storm Lake 17:11.61
4 Stundahl, Ryan 12 Algona 17:12.69 3
5 VandenBerg, Damon 12 Spirit Lake 17:27.99 4
6 Hughes, Brandon 10 Spirit Lake 17:28.14 5
7 Obbink, Trace 11 Lemars High School 17:30.17 6
8 Weber, Gavin 09 Algona 17:36.77 7
9 Madden, Ryan 12 Fort Dodge 17:37.34 8
10 Meis, Michael 12 Lemars High School 17:41.72 9

Full results HERE.

In other XC Action Lewis Central placed 5th in the girls race at Tom Karpan Invitational in West Des Moines. Ava Bussey finished 22nd for the Titans. Full results HERE

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Logan-Magnolia girls, St. Albert boys win at AHSTW Cross Country Meet

Sports

September 14th, 2022 by admin

AHSTW Cross Country Meet
09/13/2022

Girls Team Scores

  1. Logan-Magnolia 32
  2. IKM-Manning 49
  3. Riverside 79
  4. AHSTW 82
  5. Treynor 89
  6. CAM 180

Girls Individual Top Ten

1 Madison Sporrer 10 Logan-Magnolia 19:59.3 6:26
2 Stefi Beisswenger 10 Audubon 20:23.7 6:34
3 Carly Henderson 11 Riveride Community School 20:28.1 6:36
4 Mya Moss 12 Logan-Magnolia 20:35.4 6:38
5 Addison Murdock 11 Woodbine 20:49.3 6:43
6 Reese Duncan 12 St. Albert 21:10.0 6:49
7 Haedyn Hall 10 Logan-Magnolia 21:20.0 6:52
8 Lilly Irwin 11 Underwood Csd 21:23.0 6:53
9 Taylor Beckendorf 10 Ikm-Manning 21:26.7 6:55
10 Adyson Lapel 10 Woodbine 21:27.0 6:55

Boys Team Scores

  1. St. Albert 49
  2. Woodbine 56
  3. IKM-Manning 57
  4. Riverside 80
  5. Treynor 143
  6. Logan-Magnolia 205
  7. Griswold 211
  8. Exira-EHK 212
  9. Missouri Valley 234
  10. Heartland Christian 250
  11. Underwood 271

Boys Individual Top Ten

1 Landon Bendgen 11 Woodbine 16:01.5 5:10
2 Colin Lillie 12 St. Albert 16:07.4 5:12
3 Caden Keller 12 Ikm-Manning 16:13.8 5:14
4 Gunner Wagner 10 Woodbine 17:29.3 5:38
5 Owen Wise 11 St. Albert 17:45.8 5:44
6 Mason McCready 11 Riveride Community School 17:56.5 5:47
7 Adam Denny 12 St. Albert 18:01.1 5:48
8 Cody Dorscher 10 Griswold School 18:01.2 5:48
9 Nathan Johnson 12 Ikm-Manning 18:03.6 5:49
10 John Ross Beiderman 12 Treynor 18:06.4 5:50

Full results HERE

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High School Volleyball Scoreboard 09/13/2022

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September 14th, 2022 by admin

Hawkeye Ten Conference

(3-0) Atlantic 25-25-25, Clarinda 12-20-18 (A: Lexi Noelck 10 kills, 13 assists. Jada Jensen 13 assists. Abby Smith 8 digs.)
(3-2) Atlantic 25-24-16-30-15, Glenwood 23-26-25-28-12 (A: Lexi Noelck 16 kills, 26 assists. Jada Jensen 14 kills, 23 assists. Abby Smith 20 digs. Chloe Mullenix 4 blocks.)
(3-0) Glenwood 25-25-27, Clarinda 19-21-25
(3-1) Carroll 22-25-25-25, Denison-Schleswig 25-19-18-22
(3-0) Red Oak 25-25-25, St. Albert 19-14-17 (RO: Merced Rameriz 18 assts, 12 kills.)
(3-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25, Red Oak 23-14-21
(3-0) Kuemper Catholic 25-25-25, St. Albert 11-19-15

Western Iowa Conference

(3-0) Logan-Magnolia 25-25-25, AHSTW 23-21-12
(3-0) Missouri Valley 25-25-25, Audubon 15-8-16
(3-0) Tri-Center 25-25-25, IKM-Manning 17-14-15
(3-0) Treynor 25-25-25, Underwood 16-22-9

Rolling Valley Conference

(3-0) Boyer Valley 25-25-25, Paton-Churdan 8-14-19
(3-1) Glidden-Ralston 26-25-10-25, Woodbine 24-19-25-15
Ar-We-Va vs. West Harrison

Corner Conference

(3-0) Fremont-Mills 25-25-25, Essex 13-23-21
(3-0) Lourdes Central Catholic 25-25-25, Hamburg 4-12-10
(3-2) Sidney 26-25-27-25-15, East Mills 28-21-29-16-8
(3-0) Stanton 25-25-25, Griswold 12-19-22

Pride of Iowa Conference

(3-0) Mount Ayr 25-25-25, East Union 15-19-15
(3-0) Southwest Valley 25-25-25, Nodaway Valley 17-11-21
(3-0) Central Decatur def Martensdale-St. Marys

Other Scores

(3-0) Bishop Heelan Catholic 25-25-25, CB Thomas Jefferson 14-12-15
(3-2) Sioux City East 28-20-18-25-15, CB Abraham Lincoln 26-25-25-18-7
(3-0) Murray 25-25-25, Melcher-Dallas 21-15-12

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Drought forces Corps to lower Missouri River by a foot, navigation season cut short

Ag/Outdoor, News, Weather

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Prolonged drought across the region has pushed the U-S Army Corps of Engineers to lower Missouri River levels from Nebraska City to Kansas City by a full foot. The lower levels will affect boat traffic and could impact municipal water supplies and other utilities that rely on the river. Missouri River Basin Water Management Director John Remus (REE-mus) says conditions have been getting worse since the drought first began to emerge in July of 2020. “In March, about 70% of the upper basin was experiencing some level of drought and about 20% of it was severe drought, very, very dry,” Remus says. “We have had some good rains throughout the year up there, but the conditions have improved, but not enough to really help the runoff.”

Remus says lower water levels will have an impact on navigation this fall.  “Of course, that means more trips or more barges to get the same amount of product up and down the river,” Remus says. Navigation continues on the Missouri, though barges will have to lighten their loads to float on the river. The navigation season will end on November 28th, which is three days early. Remus says even prolonged, heavy rains likely wouldn’t make up the difference in low soil moisture levels, as they’ve been so low for so long. “The wild card is really snowpack next year,” he says. “We had next-to-nothing for plains snowpack in 2022, and we had a below-average mountain snowpack. So unless we get better snowpack in the northern part of the basin, we’re probably going to be facing what we’ve seen this year again next year.”

Flows into the Missouri River have been reduced to cope with a much lower flood control pool in the six upstream reservoirs.

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Higher gas prices continue to impact traffic volumes in Iowa

News

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Transportation continues to see an impact on traffic levels from gas prices. The D-O-T’s Stuart Anderson says traffic had been coming back after the pandemic, but gas prices started making an impact. “Definitely noticed back in April, started seeing some of those impacts of traffic in April of 2022 compared with April of 2019 — the pre pandemic traffic levels in the state — was down four percent. And it’s generally been down three to four percent each month since then,” Anderson says. He says the May number was not as negative as some of the other months, but that is believed to be skewed by people eager to get out and enjoy the Memorial Day weekend.

“But in June is about three percent down, July four percent. And we just got the August numbers here yesterday and they’re down three percent,” Anderson says. “So we’ll see if September, October, November numbers start changing now that we’ve seen fuel prices drop a little bit at the pump.” Anderson says the drop in travel isn’t enough to cause a concern about road use taxes. “We benefit in that our state road use tax fund does not rely just on fuel taxes. It also consists of revenues from vehicle registration fees. And so that helps mitigate some of these fluctuations we see from time to time,” according to Anderson.

He says supply chain issues in the car industry have helped keep registration fees up. “We’ve seen numbers of vehicles sold, probably, on average, be lower than normal, that that’s been been offset a bit by that high demand for vehicles means that vehicle prices have been higher, particularly used vehicle prices. And so the registration fees in Iowa based in part on the price of the vehicles,” Anderson says.

He says the increase in money to the road fund from the increase registration fees has helped keep the road use tax fund close to where they want it to be.

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Polk County man arrested Wed. morning in Red Oak

News

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Red Oak, Iowa) – A man from Polk County was arrested at around 1:11-a.m. today (Wednesday), in Red Oak. Authorities say 25-year-old Ali Rasheed Muhammad, of Des Moines, was arrested following a traffic stop. Upon further investigation, it was determined Muhammad was in possession of a controlled substance/1st offense. He was also cited for no valid driver’s license and a registration violation.

Muhammad was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the Nishna Valley: Wed., Sept. 14, 2022

Weather

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Today: Mostly Sunny. High 88. S @ 15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low 66. S @ 15.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy. High 85. S 10-20.
Friday: Partly cloudy to cloudy w/a chance of rain late. High 85. S @ 15 mph.
Saturday: P/Cldy w/a chance of rain. High 93. S @ 10-20.

Tuesday’s High in Atlantic was 84. The Low was 44. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 79 and the Low was 47. The Record High on this date was 99 in 1939. The Record Low was 29 in 1892.

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Special Election results from Adams County, Harlan, Creston & O-M

News

September 14th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Area) – Special Elections were held in Adams, Adair-Union, and Shelby Counties in our listening area, Tuesday. Unofficial results in Adams County, indicate voters there rejected an $8.5 million bond issue that would have provided for multiple renovations at the county’s courthouse. The measure failed by 238 NO votes to 229 YES votes. The bond issue would have meant an increase of $0.63 per $1,000 valuation on property taxes, or around $30 annually for a $100,000 home, and would have served to provided sufficient space for the Sheriff’s Office but also a more secure mode for transporting prisoners.

In Shelby County, voters in the Harlan Community School District approved a $22.9 million bond issue. Unofficial results show Proposition TD (the bond) passed with 1003 yes votes to 660 no votes (60.31% to 39.69%). The second measure, Proposition TE (The Revenue Purpose Statement), passed by 1,104 yes to 538 no votes (67.24% to 32.76%). The District will now proceed with renovations and upgrades to all four buildings on HCSD campus, as previously mentioned. The school district will contribute $9.1 million from its state funding toward completion of the projects.

Voters in the Orient-Macksburg Community School District, Tuesday, approved a 10-year renewal of the PPEL (Physical Plant and Equipment Levy), not to exceed One-dollar per thousand dollars of assessed property valuation, effective with the collection of taxes in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. Public Measure D passed by 59 YES votes to just nine NO votes. A simple majority was needed to pass. Officials say only 68 out 606 (or, 11%) of the registered voters cast their ballots during the election.

And, votes in the Creston Community School District appear to have fallen short of the amount needed to pass a proposed $29.4-million bond issue. Officials say (Unofficial) combined Adam & Union County results indicated 817 voted against the measure, while 812 voted to pass it. A 60% majority was needed for the second attempt to pass the measure in the district. A similar vote fell about 4% short of the 60% in March.

School officials were hoping to use proceeds from the bond issue, along with $15.5 million in SAVE funds and $1.1 million in PPEL dollars for the project, to make an addition to the existing facility housing 1st through 8th graders. The project would have also allowed for the retirement of the district’s early childhood center housing pre-K and kindergarten students, thus creating a centralized campus for pre-K-through-5th graders. Also included was construction of a multipurpose facility plus performing arts and classroom facility improvements.

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Iowa sticking with Spencer Petras

Sports

September 13th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz is sticking with Spencer Petras as the starting quarterback against Nevada. Through two games, Petras has completed 23 of 51 passes for 201 yards and two interceptions for a Hawkeye offense that has scored one touchdown. In his last eight games, Petras has one touchdown pass and nine interceptions.

Ferentz says he has looked at the entire body of work for Petras and not just the last eight games in which the offense has cratered.

Ferentz is sticking with Petras even though in the two complete games Alex Padilla started in last season the Hawkeyes scored 27 and 33 points.

Ferentz says the first priority is to eliminate mistakes.

Petras expects to be the starter on Saturday.

Petras says criticism comes with the position.

Petras says he is focused on improvement.

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Iowa State’s Matt Campbell previews Ohio

Sports

September 13th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

Iowa State coach Matt Campbell says upsets happen every week and the Cyclones look to avoid being involved in the next one. ISU is at home on Saturday to take on an Ohio team that is coming off a 46-10 loss at Penn State.

Marshall won at Notre Dame last week and Appalachian State beat Texas A@M. Campbell says the Ohio players will come to Jack Trice Stadium believing they can win.

Mistakes were a concern in last week’s win at Iowa. The Cyclones had two punts blocked.

Campbell does not believe it is a concern going forward.

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