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SOLON– Solon’s school board went back to the future.
Board members were presented with a draft of the school calendar for 2022-2023 during a Dec. 17 meeting.
According to Solon Community School District (SCSD) Superintendent Davis Eidahl, the calendar was prepared based on previous years by administrative assistant and board secretary Kris Wentzien.
Eidahl reviewed the draft to ensure 180 school days and a minimum 1,080 hours of student contact.
The first day of school would be Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, and the last day for students would be Thursday, May 25, 2023.

NORTH LIBERTY– Elaine Hernandez and her husband were in a store when someone started to make fun of her for wearing a mask.
“Anyway, I mentioned COVID and he started screaming at me,” Hernandez, a nurse serving as a navigator/care coordinator clinician at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ post-Intensive Care Unit COVID unit, said as she recalled the incident. “He said, ‘Fake news, it’s a hoax.’ You know, he was like, he was very adamant about it. And, I was just crushed. I mean, I was shaking down to my knees.”

SOLON– After a one-year, COVID-induced hiatus, Solon students will take a statewide assessment in 2021.
And while districts nationwide are dealing with a learning gap due to school closures and online curriculum, Solon’s administration expects to bounce back.
The Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress (ISASP) was introduced two years ago, explained Solon Community School District (SCSD) Director of Teaching and Learning Josh Lyons during a Dec. 17 school board meeting.
SCSD students took the ISASP during the 2018-2019 school year with paper and pencil, he noted.

JOHNSON COUNTY– 2020 will of course be remembered as a year where many activities were cancelled due to the pandemic, including the entire high school spring sports season. However, winter sports wrapped up just in time, and a successful summer season led to the approval of fall sports.

Iowa City West boys bowling
Team MVC Overall
Waterloo West 2-0 3-0
CR Jefferson 2-1 2-1
Linn-Mar 2-1 2-1
CR Kennedy 1-1 1-1
Iowa City West 1-1 1-1
Dubuque Hempstead 1-1 1-2
Dubuque Wahlert 0-0 1-0

Iowa City West girls bowling
Team MVC Overall
CR Jefferson 3-0 3-0
Linn-Mar 2-1 2-1
Dubuque Hempstead 1-0 2-1
CR Kennedy 1-1 1-1
Waterloo West 1-1 1-2
Dubuque Wahlert 0-0 1-0
Iowa City West 0-1 0-2

Clear Creek Amana boys basketball
Team WaMaC Overall
Clear Creek Amana 5-1 5-2
Williamsburg 2-4 4-4
Center Point-Urbana 2-5 2-5
Vinton-Shellsburg 0-4 2-4
Independence 0-2 1-3