Dixon teachers and board reach tentative contract deal
Dixon Teachers Association and Dixon School Board reach a tentative agreement on a new three year contract after hours of mediation. The deal was announced at 2 23 a m by DEA President Jan Wagoner and Board President Dave Keeley. Details will be released after ratification. Sixteen dozen facts in the district show 172 teachers and 3103 students.
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Dixon Teachers Association
Dixon School Board
DEA
Jan Wagoner
Dave Keeley
Wagoner
Teamsters Hall
Keeley
Dixon School System
Shirley Fane
Dixon School
Tom Conley
The
Telegraph
the Telegraph
Dixon
Ames Furniture Store to Liquidate but Stay in Dixon
Ames Furniture Store owner David Ames Jr announces liquidation of the firm’s entire furniture stock while planning to remain in business in Dixon. The plan includes selling everything and possibly reopening at the same site with a smaller store or another location, focusing on bedding and recliners after steady upholstery sales.
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Raph
Ames Furniture
Dixon
David Ames Jr
Ames
Dixon Commission
Sterling
Boy Rescued From Creek After Near Drowning
Debi Bonnell praised neighbors who saved her 2-year-old son Jason after he slipped into the North Lincoln Avenue Creek. Brian Jones alerted adults. Donna Richter jumped in, pulled Jason from about 40 feet of water, and emergency crews arrived. Jason was treated at KSB Hospital and released, mother says he is back to normal.
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Debi Bonnell
Willett Ave
Bonnell
Jason
Lincoln Avenue
Brian Jones
Brian
Roy
Diane Jones
Spruce St
Diane
Donna Richter
Donna
Katz
David
KSB Hospital
Debi
Mike
Historic clean air legislation passes in House subcommittee
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee approved a compromise auto emission standards plan 22 0, a move enviro groups call a historic breakthrough. Waxman backs the deal, Dingell cautions about industry costs, GM criticizes limited benefits, while environmentalists praise progress toward cleaner cars.
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Washington
House
Richard Ayres
National Clean Air
Waxman
Bush
General Motors
Dingell
Soviet minister honors U S soldiers William Manning
Soviet official Yazov outlines new reductions of tanks and troops in eastern Europe while U S soldiers are recognized by a Soviet minister named William Manning is noted in the report.
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U.S
William Manning
Yazov
Europe
Dmitri T. Yazov
Washington, D.C
U.S. Army
Pumpkin hunt begins at Dixon stand on First Street
Telegraph photographer Mark Sauer captures 10 year old Mike Lally browsing the pumpkin stand on First Street in Dixon. Halloween falls on October 31 and shoppers hunt for the best gourds ahead of the holiday.
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Telegraph
Mark Sauer
Mike Lally
First Street
Dixon
Council OKs study for sewers and annexation plans
Dixon Street Commission Marilyn Coffey won approval to start engineering studies to separate storm and sanitary sewers in Swissville and North Hennepin Avenue using about 700000 of the citys anticipated 1 million share of temporary income tax receipts. The panel also finalized an annexation of 5016 acres at Bloody Gulch Road and US Route 26 for a 41 unit Muscatine motel, and approved Heritage Square demolitions for a parking lot. Construction is set for spring.
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Telegraph
Dixon Street
Marilyn Coffey
Swissville
Hennepin Avenue
Coffey
James Dixon
Bloody Gulch Road
Muscatine
Iowa
Magen Patel
Patel
Dixon
Heritage Square
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