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South Benton Star-PressVan Horne Newsletter (February) |
PAST STORIES
- BP declines sharing alternative high school program with HLV
- Fischer takes on challenge of new ISU Extension Region 10
- Search warrants reveal details of Marengo murder
- Benton hears building project updates
- Construction projects cause traffic changes at school
- Ground is broken for Habitat home in Belle Plaine
- Keeping the books on the Plainsmen
- BC team invites community members
- Iowa unemployment rate hits 6.5 percent, Benton County’s rate improves to 5.7 percent
- Iowa second in the nation for the highest average ACT
- Jury finds Vinton man guilty of manufacturing methamphetamine
- Action tabled on sharing alternative high school program with HLV
- Keystone first day (VIDEO)
- STATE FAIR UPDATE
- BC looks at progress reports, gearing up for 2014 goals
- Presentation goes well for Belle Plaine aquatic center grant
- Supervisors look at succession, law enforcement and nepotism
- Site chosen for Atkins community building
- Atkins Watermelon Days (Video)
- Benton County Fair (video)
- Changes in leadership at MPC newspapers
- Big thing in Belle Plaine (video)
- ADM acquires Keystone Mercantile
- JESUS SAVES: Spreading the word by covered wagon
- Benton County developing hazard mitigation plan
- BP COUNCIL: Bids are approved for Belle Plaine Aquatic Center
- Chuck James is new Veterans Affairs Director for Benton County
- Belle Plaine July 4 video
- Burrows looks back on 20 years of publishing
- ACS has Walk/Run in Atkins; raises $21,600
- Benton takes first look at test scores
- Benton to look for K-12 curriculum director
- Benton County projects in DOT five-year plan
- DNA helps in finding burglary suspect
- Garling awarded Belle Plaine school construction project
- Bids are opened for Belle Plaine School project
- LINDA ABEL - Loss of a legendary teacher
- Teaching contracts are approved by Belle Plaine board
- Administrative contracts approved at Benton
- Teachers, administration give statements on e-mail investigation
- Fight ban passes in Belle Plaine; Main Street project may be on hold
- Bond sale approved for Atkins Elementary Center
- New jail to be built on site of current flooded jail
- Highway 30 in Benton County included in draft DOT five-year plan
- BATTLING IN BULGARIA
- Band O Rama (Youtube)Dotphoto.com
- REMEMBERING ‘THE BIRD’
- Benton and Belle Plaine Sports (Youtube)
- Leonard Boswell visits Belle Plaine officials (YouTube)
- BELLE PLAINE PROM PICTURES (DOTPHOTO)
- BP school approves $15.9 million budget
- First reading on fighting ban approved, 3-2
- Festival of Bands - April 16, 2009 (Youtube)
- Legal fees and open forum are debated by BC board
- Open forum packs BC meeting
- Bonds awarded on $4.3 million school projects in Belle Plaine
- Benton sends three entries to all-state speech
- Benton Community School Board Open Forum, March 18 A B
- Belle Plaine Ambulance seeks help from council
- Norway baseball teams are remembered at museum
- Budget is approved for Benton County
- Carl Ritscher and Curtis Junge - longtime Turners in Keystone (Youtube)
- Benton Community junior high concert (YouTube) Feb. 24, 2009
- A TOUCH OF CLASS (video)
- Belle Plaine council approves loan agreements Tuesday
- STREETSCAPE - Designer seeks input from business owners on Belle Plaine Main Street
- INA gives honors to MPC newspapers
- Special meeting is Thursday, Feb. 26 on termination of administrator's contract at Benton Community CANCELLED
- Ice fishing at Hannen Park (Youtube)
- Price tag jumps by $1.5 million on Atkins school renovation project
- Murray sentenced to 15 years on Keystone robbery
- Benton Community minutes from special Jan. 13 meeting
- Brittany Donnelly helped in local fund drive
- Belle Plaine Community Development looks back on a successful year
- Drahn Insurance purchases Van Horne Insurance Agency Inc.
- Strawn looks forward to challenges as Republican Party of Iowa chair
- Van Horne native Matt Strawn is named chair of Republican Party of Iowa
- Grieder Beverage Depot opens
- Kapucian and Pettengill head to capitol for new legislative session
- Jessica Stamp wins top prize in “It’s A Wonderful Life” scratch game
- BP works for ‘shovel ready’ projects
- Sunshine Laws to get help with enforcement
- Swearing in of Benton County officials (Youtube)
- The last issue for the Union and Star-Press
- BENTON SCHOOL BOARD
- CHRISTMAS IN BENTON COUNTY
- Norway elementary (Youtube)
- Keystone Elementary (Youtube)
- Cathedral Concert (Youtube)
- Atkins Elementary (Youtube)
- Santa visits Newhall (Youtube)
- Van Horne Businessmen Christmas (Youtube)
- Belle Plaine Wrestling Invite Highlights (Youtube)
- Visioning process is completed for beautification project
- Benco announces temporary layoff of 34
- Updates are given on science, social studies and preschool at BC
- Keystone man found guilty of theft, robbery
- BC accepts recommendations on conducting closed sessions
- O’Grady purchases Blairstown Feed Mill
- Decades later, Benton County is looking for a new jail again
- Johnson Motor is sold to Joel and Dawn Thys
BC BOARD - Oct. 15, 2008
- School board responds to ombudsman’s report
- Atkins addition is priority for school board
- Administrators give reports at meeting last week
- ‘School in Need’ status is explained to BC board
- Benton superintendent receives statewide recognition
- IASB notes from work session with the Benton Community School Board
BENTON BOARD
- “School In Need” designation is explained
- School board president, vice president are chosen for BC
- BC hears of tracking its graduates, and how ACT scores compare for Class of 2008
- Reading for diverse students at Benton Community
- McKinneys take over food pantry in Belle Plaine
- Where Benton stacks up
- Benton looks at achievement levels for elementary
- Voters approve new aquatic center, 355-102
- Benton County natives chosen for top spots in Iowa Legion; look at the rewards and challenges of the Legion in Iowa
- BC Board Work Session Minutes from June - Superintendent/Board Development with the IASB (Prepared by Mary Jane Vens, IASB)
- STORM DAMAGE VIDEO AND INTERVIEWS - July 2 and 3 between Newhall and Van Horne (YOUTUBE)
- Achievement scores are explained for Benton
- Benton County begins the slow process of recovering from the Floods of 2008
- County works to return to ‘normalcy’ after Vinton flood
- Allison Wilhelm used newly learned CPR skills last summer to save her father-in-law Pat Wilhelm
- School board meets with IASB facilitator again
- Updated conduct policy at Benton will include counseling
- Patrons question school board in open forum