Mount Vernon weighs roundabouts at key highway junctions
Mount Vernon residents questioned roundabout benefits at a public hearing on Highway 30 and Highway 1 with a second proposed roundabout at Highway 30 and 10th Avenue. Officials plan more data on separation distances and consider traffic signals as an alternative with costs between three and five million dollars.
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Dave DeWitte
Gazette
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon City
10Th Avenue
Iowa
Iowa Department of Transportation
Paul Tuerler
Michael Beimer
Beimer
Country Club Road
Highway 30
Highway 1
Shive-Hattery Inc
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Woman dies as tire from semi crashes into car near Denver
The regional roundup reports Jennifer Marie Durazo 35 of Fredrick died on Interstate 25 after a rear tire from a southbound semi flew off, crushed her Camry near Denver. The truck driver was identified as 70 year old Terry Alan Fink of Toledo Iowa. The truck owner is Z Line Ltd. of Toledo.
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Thornton
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Jennifer Marie Durazo
Fredrick
Interstate 25
Denver
Durazo
Terry Alan Fink
Toledo
Iowa
Z Line Ltd
Fink
Wellman street project moves forward after council vote
City Council approves Howard R. Green Co. to begin engineering for water sewer and stormwater mains and concrete surfacing on Circle Drive Golfview Drive and Sixth Avenue north of Highway 22. Project cost 1.6 million with a 500000 grant sought but not yet awarded. Residents may have driveway access limited two to three months. public meeting planned.
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Mary Zielinski
Adent
Dave Ross
Washington County Riverboat Foundation
Tim Cosforth
Kalona Weighs Flood Plan With Iowa Flood Center Partner
Kalona moves toward a comprehensive storm sewer plan and may partner with the Iowa Flood Center as a model community. City officials met with center representatives, with three communities sought for a long term, federally funded flood-control partnership, including FEMA mapping placing Kalona south of Highway 22. Meetings will continue next month with FEMA, open to residents.
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Kalona
Iowa
Ryan Schlabaugh
Schlabaugh
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Highway 22
FEMA
Des Moines Students Learn at Own Pace with Credit Recovery Lab
In Des Moines public schools the Apex Learning credit recovery program helps students like Steven Martinez finish high school. At East and North high schools the lab offers self paced science math English and social studies courses aligned to core standards. About 50 students attend with one graduate already and more close to completion.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Steven Martinez
East High School
Martinez
East
North
Hoover High School
Lincoln
Apex Learning
Whitney Wikert
Wikert
Erika Ramirez
Ashley Schryver
Cece Leyva
Leyva
Schryver
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