At least three area school district Boards of Education will hold their regular (separate) monthly meetings, Monday evening (Sept 21st). The Boards for the Exira-EHK, Audubon and Griswold School Districts all have meetings set to take place.

Some items on the agenda for the Griswold School Board meeting (5:30-p.m. in the High School Conference Room) include:

• Personnel matters
• The Sale of a bus
• Discussion & possible action on a Veteran’s Day Program, and, Athletic Director Supervisor Pay.

The Audubon School Board meets at 7-p.m. in the High School Board Room, and will act on the following:

• Approval of a 28-E Agreement w/the Woodward Academy
• Approval of a Truancy Officer
• Approval of construction contracts for the Renovation Project
• and Personnel matters.

Other business/updates, will cover: the Summer Foods Program; Preliminary Enrollment Figures, Unspent Authorized Budget – Preliminary Figures, and the Building Project Update (including progress on plans and design).

And, the Exira-EHK School Board meeting takes place at 6-p.m. in the Conference Room at the Elk Horn Building.  Most of their agenda includes administrative matters, such as: Approving a law firm for the District; Approving a Secondary Lawyer for property and local matters; approval of Banking Institutions; Personnel matters, and more.

Two people were injured during a collision between a pickup truck and a semi, Sunday morning, in northeast Iowa’s Chickasaw County. According to the State Patrol, a Ford F-350 pickup driven by 21-year old Hunter Poppe, of Shell Rock, was traveling north in the southbound lane of Highway 63 from the exit ramp with Highway 18, when the pickup collided nearly head-on in the right lane, with a 2015 Peterbilt semi, driven by 58-year old Ricky Toutges, of Byron, MN. The collision happened at around 7:10-a.m.

Poppe suffered life threatening injuries and was transported by ambulance to the hospital in New Hampton and then to the Mayo Clino by helicopter. He was not wearing a seat belt. Toutges suffered minor injuries in the crash. The accident remains under investigation.

The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Dept., IA DNR, IA DOT MVE, Mercy One Air, New Hampton Fire & Rescue, and New Hampton Ambulance.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dispute between Iowa’s governor and the state’s largest school district could mean summer school for students and crippling bills for the school system. Des Moines school officials have repeatedly refused to abide by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ order that districts hold at least half their classes in-person, saying it’s not safe. After the district last week again voted to violate Reynolds’ order, the governor called their action “unacceptable.”

The state Education Department is beginning the process for punishing the district. If they find the district is out of compliance, state officials could take a variety of actions, including requiring the district to keep students in classes until the end of June. Each additional day would cost the district about $1.5 million.

Police in Red Oak report the arrest Saturday night, of 28-year old Eric David Taylor, from Red Oak. Taylor was arrested in the 500 block of E. Washington Avenue, in Red Oak, for OWI/1st offense. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.

A single-vehicle accident early this (Sunday) morning in Madison County has claimed the life of a Winterset man. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 58-year old Rustin Wade Tuttle, who was not wearing a seat belt, died when the 2008 Cadillac DTS he was driving went out of control, southbound on Pamel Park Road, southeast of Winterset. The vehicle entered the west ditch and went airborne over a culvert before hitting a tree and coming to rest on its passenger side. The accident happened at around 2:15-a.m.

Authorities say the results of a Blood Alcohol Test (BAC) are pending.