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USD 223 SCHOOL BOARD
Linn High School could get a new gym by the end of next year’s basketball season if all goes smoothly through an effort directed by the USD 223 Barnes-Hanover-Linn school board on Monday night.
USD 223 superintendent John... + continue reading
The USD 108 Board of Education voted 6-0 Monday night to support the start of clay target team for Washington County High School juniors and seniors.
Present were Rod Stewart, Jill Hoover, Keelie Welch, Kevin Elliott, Rhonda Manley and Kelsie Beikmann.... + continue reading
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Scott and Deborah Bokelman, of rural Washington, protect their farm land by implementing and maintaining conservation practices. Some of the land has been in the family for 100 years.
Scott Bokelman said he’s received valuable farming and conservation advice from landlords and ag customers over the years. He grew up on a farm in the Linn area, and he and his wife, Deborah, have been farming in the county for 32 years in addition to his 37-year career working for an ag... + continue reading
Mark Diederich, pictured with tame cow Bessie who is the leader and teacher for stalk-grazing yearling heifers, grazes his cattle on native grass pastures and crop field residue.
Mark and Evelyn Diederich have developed a rotational grazing system that has improved the grass and reduced the invasive trees and weeds on their land south of Greenleaf in the Kimeo area. The couple’s commitment to range management has earned them this year’s Col. Donald C. Peterson... + continue reading
Perf Synovec is shown in his Morrowville grocery store in 1946 shortly after he bought it. The grocery store served the community for 70 years before closing in the late 1980s.
For nearly 70 years people in the Morrowville community could run downtown to the grocery store to buy everything from fresh cut meat to dry goods. Beer, fresh doughnuts, infant formula and home grocery delivery were available in later years. But times changed, and like many other rural areas, the... + continue reading
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,JOE PHILLIPS
Dear Me...
Prisoners of War were able to make radios out of prison camp scraps to detect transmissions.
I opened another old box.
A Cub Scout book from 1952 was marked to a page on basic crystal radios.
Crystal radios do not need a power source. They operate on energy sent out by the radio... + continue reading
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TUESDAY, JAN. 28
CLIFTON-CLYDE 45,
LINN 38
A strong third quarter where Clifton-Clyde held Linn to two points and built a 14 point lead created enough space to hold off a Linn charge in the... + continue reading
