Month: February 2021

By JEFF LAMPE Weekly Post Staff Writer WILLIAMSFIELD – The last all Williamsfield High School sports will become part of cooperative agreements starting next school year. The Williamsfield School Board voted 5-1 Monday night to expand the school’s Mid-County coop – which includes ROWVA and Galva – to include high school golf. The board also voted to expand the ROWVA-Williamsfield coop to include high school volleyball and middle school baseball, softball and track and field. Volleyball and golf had been the last high school sports solely fielded by Williamsfield, and the change has been fodder for a fair amount of…

By JOHN A. BALLENTINE For The Weekly Post ELMWOOD – The Elmwood City Council council discussed and approved a $3,500 Elmwood Business Sustainability Grant to the Uptown Café at its Jan. 19 meeting. The grant is from the state’s DCEO Local CURE economic stability grant, and Elmwood will be reimbursed for that amount. The grant is for businesses that were shut down due to COVID mitigations or reduced to take-out service. The council also discussed at length the sale of a 14-foot wide piece of the city’s parking lot that is adjacent to the Masonic Horeb Lodge. The Masons want…

By BILL KNIGHT For The Weekly Post PRINCEVILLE – The Village Board on Jan. 19 unanimously approved paying off the Morton Community Bank loan that the Village took out to fund the water-meter replacement project. The balance being paid is about $182,000 said Village president Jeff Troutman, who said the action will save Princeville considerable interest. In other news: • The Village reminds the community that a public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight (Jan. 28) at the Village Hall, and a draft of the plan is available on the Village web site, princeville.org, which…

Elmwood schools will save $480,000 By BILL KNIGHT For The Weekly Post ELMWOOD – The Board of Education for District 322 on Monday unanimously approved issuing $8.5 million in refunding bonds to refinance its General Obligation School Bonds, Series 2017. The move will save the District $480,000 in nominal interest, according to Superintendent Chad Wagner. “In order to realize those savings, the interest rate will need to be at approximately 2 percent when the bonds are issued,” Wagner told The Weekly Post. “If that is not the case, then the District will pull out of the refinance option.” The Board’s…