Teacher Fights to reclaim Ossian Post in Legal Battle
Betty Sexton returns to South Winneshiek Middle School in Ossian after a multi year dispute over her firing in March 1981. The case involved grounds of unsuitable teaching methods and culminated in appeals and court rulings up to but not including the Iowa Supreme Court.
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Deb Wiley
Iowa
Calmar
Betty Sexton
South Winneshiek Middle School
Ossian
Sexton
Iowa Supreme Court
South Winneshiek
Russell Loven
Winneshiek County District Court
Iowa Court of Appeals
Iowa Supreme
Branstad finds school aid bill reasonable despite tax hike concern
Gov. Branstad called the 1984-85 school aid measure reasonable but warned it could trigger an $11 million property tax boost as districts replace lost fine money with local levies. The bill would set $730.7 million in state aid and shift fines to the general fund, with districts allowed to raise taxes to cover the shortfall.
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Branstad
Judy Daubenmier
Vette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Terry Branstad
Iowa
State General Fund
Tornado Sends Hamburg Area Check 75 Miles to Lewis Iowa
Lloyd Auerbach reports a torn check ripped in half blown along the wind from Hamburg where Charles Gardner’s house was destroyed by a funnel cloud Sunday afternoon. The check traveled 75 miles to Auerbach’s Lewis farm as cleanup continued across Southwest Iowa.
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Lewis, Iowa
Parole frees inmate mother in custody battle
Iowa Board of Parole grants release to Nancy Browning Cabbell a Cedar Rapids woman serving a ten year sentence for theft and bad checks after she gave birth to a son in prison and sought custody while the infant remained in foster care. She has lived in a Des Moines halfway house for six weeks and faces court action to regain custody.
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Sexton
Decorah
Des Moines
The
Cedar Rapids
Parole Board
Iowa Board of Parole
Nancy Browning Cabbell
Randi Youells
Altoona
Cabbell
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