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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
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Page 1 of 2 By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
 GOING-GOING-ALMOST GONE – Crews are almost finished in taking down the Conrad Motel. The units were sold and are going off for another use. The local Port Authority has the land which will be available for commercial use in the near future. I-O Photo by Buck Traxler
She has resigned her position as city attorney leaving the city in the position of looking for a new attorney.
The position had been a 20-hour per week job; however, the hours were going long past that. The county and state will pick up the cost of her salary.
Ries said on Thursday, “I’m excited, this is what I wanted all along.” She applauded city officers and administration and will continue to work with police on criminal cases that come through her office.
Ries received her Juris Doctor degree in 2001 from the UofM School of Law in Missoula. She worked in the Cascade County attorney’s office for four years where she was responsible for the prosecution of criminal cases that included misdemeanors, juvenile offenses and types of felonies that ranged for forgeries to homicide and sex offenses.
She was also the Justice of the Peace for Pondera County, a position she held for six years and was the office manager for the County Extension office.
Broesder also noted that the county had put out requests for proposals for work to be done at the airport, the commissioners are working on the budget, and the mill levy is going up, “ever so slightly,” but taxes will not be going up.
In other reports, Cheryl Sawyer reported for the library, that Christy Leskovar, author of One Night in a Bad Inn, will be speaking and signing books at the library on Sept. 11.
The book is about her great uncle, Archie Hughes, who was involved in a botched robbery in 1923, which led to his partner, Roy Walsh, being hanged. It became a famous case, as it was the last legal hanging in Jefferson County.
Superintendent of Schools Lynn Utterback reported that “Yes, Prairie View School is reopening.”
School starts Aug. 29 and Homecoming is Sept. 29, so mark your calendar.
He said that Greg Jensen would be the grade four-five principal and also the Title I teacher for that building.
He noted that, “Our schools made the AYP (Average Yearly Progress) mandates with the proper percentage of students scoring in both reading and math.
Results from the AYP will be out soon in the I-O. He also noted that the schools would not be using the Iowa Basic test anymore.
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