From the monthly archives:

August 2005

Grinnell looks to improve on 6-4 season

by admin on August 31, 2005

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Grinnell College coach Greg Wallace hopes the momentum of the 2004 season carries over to this year. The Pioneers won three of their last four games to finish 6-4. Offensively, quarterback Sean Pfalzer will lead this team. The junior from Moraga, California finished 18th in total offense in NCAA III in his first year as a starter. Pfalzer will direct a young offense that lost nine starters and Wallace says the defense will need to lead the way early in the season.Grinnell opens on Saturday at Ripon College of Wisconsin and Wallace says they face a tough chore to start the season. He says Ripon brings back a number of talented people and run the option offense. Wallace says defending champion St.Norbert is the favorite in the Midwest Conference and then Monmouth was picked second.It is Wallace’s 18th year as the head coach.

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Zebra mussels found in Clear Lake

by admin 08/31/05 4:54 PM

Those pesky zebra mussels have been found for the first time in an inland body of water in Iowa. Kim Bogenschutz, coordinator of the Iowa D-N-R’s aquatic nuisance species program, says two of the mussels were discovered recently in Clear Lake. Bogenschutz says it’s a concern since the creatures can cause a number of problems. [...]

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Diesel prices put pinch on school bus budget

by admin 08/31/05 4:52 PM

The price of gas today hit three-dollars a gallon in some parts of Iowa. Diesel fuel has matched the rise in gas prices in recent months, and sometimes surpassed it. That puts the pinch on school district which have to keep the buses rolling. Council Bluffs Public School District spokeswoman Diane Ostrowski says [...]

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Police arrest Waterloo man for soliciting sex on the Internet

by admin 08/31/05 4:51 PM

Police have arrested a Waterloo man who they say tried to arranged sex with a minor over the Internet. 27-year old Johnny Balvanz was taken into custody Tuesday on a charge of enticing away a minor. The arrest resulted from an on-line investigation conducted by Cedar Falls police. As part of the investigation, officers logged [...]

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Vilsack says schools have to do more to meet federal standards

by admin 08/31/05 4:50 PM

Governor Tom Vilsack says he’s not surprised more Iowa schools have failed to meet federal achievement standards outlined in the “No Child Left Behind” law. “I fully expected given the parameters of No Child Left Behind that we will have school districts that may have improved for a single year but in order to get [...]

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Midwest Threshers Reunion gets underway

by admin 08/31/05 11:55 AM

The annual Midwest Old Threshers Reunion gets underway today (Wednesday) with a parade in Mount Pleasant. The reunion features steam-driven machines that used to be used for harvest, along with horse-draw buggies and trains. Reunion administrator Lennis Moore says they’re trying to get younger people to the event, and when he says “younger” he [...]

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Cyclones say they won’t look past first opponent

by admin 08/31/05 10:22 AM

Iowa State will be heavily favored when the Cyclones open on Saturday night at home when they take on Illinois State. Cyclone coach Dan McCarney says he is not looking at the Redbirds’ status as a one-double-A program, he’s too busy studying film. He says Illinois State put up 480 yards on Minnesota in the [...]

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