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Rock Port process-oriented heading into 2024, hoping to start season on right note
(Rock Port) -- Rock Port football enters the 2024 season fixated on the process. The hope is that process will create a successful season for the Blue Jays. "We're feeling pretty good right now," head coach Dalton Jones said. "We're excited. We've got a good group of guys that are working hard. They show up every day and bust their butts."
New timeline set for Hamburg school project bidletting
(Hamburg) -- Hamburg school officials plan a fall bidletting attempt for a long-delayed building project. Recently, the Hamburg School Board set a new timeline for accepting bids for the proposed expansion and renovation project at Marnie Simons Elementary School. It'll be two years next month when voters approved a $3.1 million bond issue for construction of an 8,000 square foot fitness center serving both students and local residents, plus a 250-seat auditorium for both student and community performances, and construction of two additional classrooms to meet the demands for the district's maker space programming. An additional $1.9 million in physical plant and equipment levy funds is also set aside for the project, as well as approximately $2.2 million in Secure an Advanced Vision for Education, or SAVE dollars. Hamburg School Superintendent Dr. Mike Wells sells KMA News the district hopes this third bidletting attempt yields better results.
Geography with Goudge: AP Top 25 Preseason Poll, 2024
(KMAland) -- Dr. Ted Goudge, a Shenandoah native and retired Associate Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, has released his latest geography map. Major college football (FBS) is underway, with the first game taking place yesterday. This week’s proportional symbol map displays the AP preseason top-ranked team (Georgia) with the largest football and #25 Iowa with the smallest football. The pattern displays over half (13) of the teams are from the South. The SEC (Southeastern Conference) boasts three teams among the top five and nine teams in the Top 20, followed by the Big Ten with three teams in the Top 10.
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