Dixon Schools Eye Space Shortage and Long Term Solutions
Acting Superintendent Robert Aubry told the Dixon School Board that space is tight with a need for a sixth grade classroom at Washington and a third grade classroom at Lincoln next year. The district schedules space studies and explores options including reopening Grand Detour School while considering long range fixes after immediate needs are met. The Lee County Special Education Cooperative requests eight additional classrooms, and supports a learning disabilities classroom at Washington or Lincoln.
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Dixon Public
Robert Aubry
Aubry
Dixon
Washington
Lincoln
Lee County Special Educational Cooperative
Special Education Cooperative
Lee County Special Education Association
Clint Conway
Conway
Lincoln School
Jefferson
Madison
Woody Wasson
Dixon High School
Mike Brunick
Mill talks scheduled amid Sterling strike dispute
Local 63 United Steel Workers and Sterling's Northwestern Steel and Wire officials plan talks today to resolve a dispute over incentive benefit freezes. A federal TRO issued Friday bans work stoppages and requires binding arbitration or contract grievance procedures. The strike-related sickouts occurred Feb 7 8 and Feb 14 as protests against reduced or frozen incentives. A separate accident on Harmon Road left a Rock Falls man treated at CGH Medical Center after a van and a semi collided. Jeff Doyle was cited for failing to yield.
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Telegraph
Sterling
United Steel Workers of America
Northwestern Steel and Wire Company
Noel Reed
TRC
Rock Falls
CGH Medical Center
Harmon Road
U.S. Route 30
Lee County Sheriff's Deputies
Jeff Doyle
Brian Dennison
Dennison
Harmon Fire Department
Doyle
Regular galaxy clumps teased in vast universal layout
New York AP reports researchers found galaxy clumps arranged in an apparently regular pattern across immense distances challenging current cosmology. Co author David Koo calls the regularity mind boggling while rival scientist Marc Davis urges caution until proven conclusively as a possible statistical fluke.
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New York
David Koo
Marc Davis
University of California, Berkeley
Lotto Fever Grips Illinois As $43 Million Jackpot Looms
Illinois residents rush to buy Lotto tickets as the top prize climbs to 43 million dollars. Rock River Valley outlets report sales surging 40 to 50 percent with many first time buyers joining the rush. Lottery officials say brisk midweek sales pushed the prize higher to 43 million, with odds at 12.9 million to one.
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Rock River Valley
Juanita Nolan
ESI Gas 9d Liquor
Galena Ave
Dixon
Oregon
Carol Barry
Everett St
Dennis Howard
ESI
Howard
Rockford
Beloit
Route 3
Sauget
Sharon Sharp
Sharp
Reagan says he had no inkling of Contra aid or Iran funds diversion
Former President Reagan testified in a videotaped deposition that he never suspected White House aides were secretly assisting the Nicaraguan Contras as Congress banned aid and that no one has proven to him that profits from Iran arms sales were diverted to Nicaragua. He spoke as a defense witness in John Poindexter's Iran Contra trial.
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Washington
Reagan
White House
Congress
Iran
Nicaragua
John M. Poindexter
U.S
Harold Greene
Los Angeles
Judge rules flag burning protected as speech
U S District Judge Barbara Rothstein struck down the Flag Protection Act of 1989, dismissing charges against four Seattle defendants for burning a flag outside a post office. She said the act is unconstitutional and urged equal protection for both burning and waving the flag. Strong then burned a flag on courthouse steps and spat on it, calling the ruling a victory for righteous people.
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Seattle
Congress
US. Supreme Court
U.S
Barbara Rothstein
Mark Haggerty
Jennifer Campbell
Darius Strong
Carlos Garza
Strong
Garza
Campbell
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Charles Beckman
Jacqueline Ratandt
Tom Heintzelman
Dickson
Siberia
Beckman
Radandt
Heitzelman
Nadia Naumenko
Naumenko
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Mark Saue
Illinois
Jim Jones
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