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AHSTW CO-ED Invite
GIRLS
Underwood’s Karley Larson led the way with wins in the 8000m, 15000m, and 3000m. Audubon got three wins on the night: Sydney Obermeier won the High Jump and the Sprint Medley and 4x400m Relay teams picked up wins. AHSTW also had a good night winning the 4x100m, 4x200m, Anna Bauer took the 100m, and Jaycie Schueman took the 100m Hurdles. Sydnee Young of Exira-EHK won the 200m. Riverside won the 4x800m Relay.
Full results here.
BOYS
The Wheelers won a total of nine events en route to the team title. Jake Mulford won the 100m, Mitchell Nelsen took the 110 High Hurdles, Kyle Rustvold won the high jump, Nolan Smith took the 400 Hurdles. The Wheelers won five of the six relay events. AHSTW was led by Jay Heiny with a win in the 800m and Dalton Fischer with a win in the 3200m. The Exira-EHK Spartans got wins from Brady Hansen in the Long Jump and Martin Olsen in the Shot Put. Tim Brink of Riverside took the 1600m.
Full results here.
Red Oak Lady Tiger Relays
Class 1A
Griswold had four wins on the night: Charli Adams in the 1500m, Alisha Seyler in the 3000m, Jessica Marshall in the 400m Hurdles, Distance Medley.
Full results here.
Class 2A
Glenwood won eight events in route to the team title.
Full results here.
Girls Koos Relays at Harlan
Harlan got two wins from Gillian Streit in the Shot Put and Discus. The Cyclones also won the 4x200m Relay and 4x800m Relay.
Full results here.
Missouri Valley Boys Big Red Relays
Full results Boys Big Red Relays 2016.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a Sioux City woman who approached her husband for a kiss instead bit and tore his lower lip. Court records say 59-year-old Carol Smith is charged with felony willful injury. The documents say the incident occurred in the couple’s Sioux City home on May 24 last year. Police say Smith’s husband required plastic surgery and say his psychologist reports that the man now suffers from a post-traumatic stress disorder. Smith’s next court appearance is scheduled for April 15.
Jim Field talks with Jennie Deerr about the upcoming season at Living History Farms.
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A Creston resident reported an incident of theft, Thursday morning. Creston Police said a resident in the 100 block of S. Jarvis Street, reported a red, three-person canoe with a live well, was stolen from her property sometime between April 5th and 6th. The loss was estimated at $500.
And, a City of Creston employee reported Thursday, that sometime during the overnight hours of April 5th, someone drove into the northeast corner of fencing at the Bill Sears Baseball Fields (in the area of Clark and Chestnut Streets). The incident caused an estimated $2,500 damage.
Today: Partly Cloudy to Cloudy. High 54. NW @ 15-30.
Tonight: Mostly Clear. Low 22. Winds light & variable.
Tomorrow: *Freeze warning from 1-am until 9-a.m. Saturday*
P/Cldy. High 56. S @ 10-15.
Sunday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scattered showers & thunderstorms. High 68.
Monday: Mo. Cldy. High 54.
Thursday’s High in Atlantic was 54. The Low thru 7-a.m. today was 26. Last year on this date, our High in Atlantic was 50 and the low was 41. The All-time Record High in Atlantic on this date was 89 in 1931. The Record Low was 16 in 1956.
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The Griswold School District’s Board of Education met Thursday evening to discuss and move forward on, filling the Superintendent’s position. The Board discussed three options. The one that gained the most favor, was sharing a Superintendent with two other districts in a 40-40-20 time split, with Griswold and the other, larger district having the Superintendent 40-percent (or two days) per week, and a smaller district sharing that person one-day per week. It would also involve a one-third cost-sharing contract. The arrangement would be for one-year, to start, with an evaluation taking place between late this fall and March 1st, 2017.
Board member Steve Baier said since December, he’s been contacted by, or made contact with, over dozen different school districts to discuss options, but some of the ones he thought were “pretty obvious,” didn’t work out. One of the districts wanted a 50-50 split. Baier said he and Board member Rob Peterson said two, unidentified districts, wanted to talk about an arrangement.
Baier said he met and Peterson met with representatives of the two boards and the potential Superintendent candidate, Tuesday night. Those two boards will hold separate meetings this Sunday night and next Monday. Baier said the other districts seemed to be on-board with the proposal. He said also, “The candidate in question, I would characterize, as being enthusiastic about taking on this challenge.” Peterson spoke about the candidate via conference call during Thursday evening’s meeting, and said that candidate (who was not identified), demonstrated Tuesday that he’s very well prepared for change, if it’s approved.
One of the districts the candidate currently oversees, has 130 students. The other is a little better off, and not facing a financial squeeze. Baier acknowledged, the Griswold Board’s original line of thinking was having a traditional, 50-50 sharing arrangement with another school district, but the financials just don’t work out for the better with that option.
The arrangement would save the Griswold District $127,000 per year, in a time when they’re looking at cutting $500,000 from the budget. More information on the possible three-way Superintendent sharing will be released after the other boards have met.
A tax break will be updated to benefit the Knoxville Raceway, under a bill that advanced with bipartisan support in the Iowa Senate. The raceway is revising its building plans, and the bill would make it easier to access a 2 million dollar sales tax rebate that was approved two years ago. Waterloo Democrat and avid racing promoter Bill Dotzler says the Raceway needs help to compete with other venues.
Backers say the bill is needed because the raceway has abandoned plans to expand with suites and retail space in favor of general upgrades including making the facility more accessible for aging fans. Track officials say the new plan includes upgrades to meet the requirements of the American with Disabilities Act.
(Radio Iowa)