Archive - Nov 2019

TIFFIN– Hopes are high for the Clear Creek Amana (CCA) varsity girls’ basketball team that a combination of experience and depth will lead to a successful 2018-20 season.
The Creek Girls took a stab at earning a spot in the 2019 Class 4A state tournament with a regional quarterfinal win at home over Mount Pleasant, but fell in the regional semifinals to Fairfield. The Clippers finished the 2018-19 season with an 11-8 record overall and 10-6 showing in the WaMaC Conference, which was good for second Place among a competitive field.
Seniors Jordan Neely and Lydia Banwart graduated.

CEDAR RAPIDS– Liberty High’s third season of varsity competition came to an end Tuesday, Nov. 12, with a heartbreaking loss to Pleasant Valley (PV) in the Class 5A state volleyball quarterfinals at the U.S. Cellular Center, in Cedar Rapids. The No. 7 Spartans upset the No. 2 Lightning, 3-1 (25-17, 25-12, 19-25, 25-20), ending Liberty’s dream season with a 34-3 record overall, improving their own to 30-5.

TIFFIN– Just as they had done countless times years ago, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines “fell in” for the chow line. This time however, instead of grumpy mess sergeants and privates on KP duty, they were greeted by smiling middle school student council members who happily filled their red, white and blue decorated plates with pastries, breakfast pizza and even biscuits and gravy.

MOUNT VERNON– The U.S. 30 bypass of Mount Vernon/Lisbon from west of Wilcox Road in Linn County to Charles Avenue in Cedar County will be open to traffic late Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Davenport construction office.
Drivers should still be aware of temporary lane closures as additional work is done during the 2020 construction season.
Manatt’s, Inc. of Brooklyn was the main contractor for this $28,825,766 project.

SOLON– Three new acre-sized residential lots will need city water service, but not city sewer.
At a Nov. 6 meeting, Solon City Council members approved a developer’s agreement and preliminary plat for Brotherton Ridge Part Two, a small subdivision located along the gravel on Racine Avenue south of Solon High School.
The city will extend water service to the subdivision, but the new homes will have individual septic systems because of the need for a lift station to reach the city’s wastewater treatment plant.