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07/12/11 David Emanuel Academy finished tied for second in the GISA Class A overall athletic excellence competition for the 2010-11 school year. DEA, and arch rival Thomas Jefferson both accumulated 48 points to finish behind Westwood who came in with 71 points, earning them the Dr. Michael Drake Athleti
07/11/11 Barry H. Landau has rubbed elbows with presidents, helped plan inaugurations, and claims one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside museums and presidential libraries. His Manhattan apartment includes a collection of china from Thomas Jefferson's inauguration and a picture of Landau kissing John F. Kennedy's dog Clipper. Police say he tried to expand that collection by ...
07/11/11 Presidential historian and collector held without bond Barry H. Landau has rubbed elbows with presidents, helped plan inaugurations, and claims one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside museums and presidential libraries. His Manhattan apartment includes a collection of china from Thomas Jefferson's inauguration and a picture of Landau kissing John F. Kennedy's dog Clipper.
07/09/11 Prep Baseball Wednesday, July 6 Boyer Valley 3, Missouri Valley 2 Lewis Central 5-8, Creston 0-7 St. Albert 11-13, Thomas Jefferson 3-4 Treynor 22, Griswold 6 Tri-Center 13, A-H-S-T 0 (5 inn.) Western Valley Conference Ridge View 6, IKM-Manning 0 Thursday, July 7 Glenwood at Lewis Central at Iowa Western, 6 p.m. Abraham Lincoln at Sioux City North (2), 4 p.m. Sioux City West at Thomas Jefferson ...
07/07/11 The Napa Valley of today is surely one continent and two centuries removed from the Virginia of Thomas Jefferson's time, when an agrarian elite of wealthy landowners presided over vast, verdant plantations of monocultural crops.
07/07/11 Two long-time rivals will take center stage this weekend at Thomas Jefferson High School Stadium. Alumni Football USA has organized an alumni game matching former Thomas Jefferson and Ringgold football players this Saturday at TJ Stadium. read more »
07/04/11 Today is Independence Day. Commentaries on the occasion often focus on the Declaration of Independence, its principal author, Thomas Jefferson, and other delegates, such as John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, to the 1776 convention in Philadelphia that adopted the Declaration. But the contributions of one man - who wasn't in Philadelphia - were essential to giving it meaning and force. That man ...
07/04/11 Thomas Jefferson's words rang out across the West Lawn of Monticello once again on Monday, as 77 people were sworn in as U.S. citizens on a muggy Fourth of July morning.
07/03/11 On July 4, 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the ...
07/03/11 Prep Baseball Saturday, July 2 Abraham Lincoln 8, St. Albert 2 Tuesday, July 5 Harlan at Lewis Central at Iowa Western, 6 p.m. Abraham Lincoln at Sioux City West (2), 4 p.m. Sioux City East at Thomas Jefferson (2), 5:30 p.m.
07/01/11 Are you smarter than a fifth-grader? How's your American history? July 4, 1776 marks what date? It's not the date when our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. That was actually Aug. 2, 1776. It wasn't the date that our most eloquent writer Thomas Jefferson crafted it on parchment (an animal skin, not paper). He mussed up his powdered wig on that between June 11-28.
06/30/11 We always remember George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, who are the best known of the founding fathers. Yet, there were others who played historical roles in the fight for freedom and formation of our country.
06/26/11 Five boys and 10 girls from western Iowa earned all-state honors from the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association. First-team all-staters among WI girls are Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson's Samantha Arnold in Class 3-A,...
06/25/11 Prep Baseball Wednesday, June 22 WIC Quarterfinals Treynor 11, Riverside 1 (5 inn.) Missouri Valley 4, Audubon 2 Tri-Center 7, Griswold 1 Underwood 12, A-H-S-T 2 Thursday, June 23 Shenandoah at Lewis Central, 7:30 p.m. Thomas Jefferson at Sergeant Bluff-Luton (2), 5:30 p.m.
06/25/11 Come July 4, Americans will celebrate the Declaration of Independence almost as much as they celebrate independence itself. Attributed mainly to Thomas Jefferson, it's a remarkable synthesis of original ideas and other great minds' great ideas that the Founders knew through reading.
06/25/11 Prep Baseball Friday, June 24 Abraham Lincoln 7-11, Thomas Jefferson 0-1 Saturday, June 25 Abraham Lincoln at Des Moines Lincoln (2), 4 p.m. St. Albert, Harlan at Carroll Kuemper tourney Clarinda Academy at Clarinda Shenandoah at Essex Western Iowa Conference tournament Consolation: Treynor 7, Missouri Valley 2 Championship: Tri-Center 9, Underwood 1 Prep Softball Friday, June 24 Lynx Classic ...
06/24/11 Members of the American Legion Post 355 of Kellogg recently installed a flag pole and presented a flag to Thomas Jefferson Elementary School student Tristan Edwards and his family.
06/23/11 In honor of the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, we are reminded once again about the sacrifices made by our founding fathers. Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams , Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay were known as revolutionaries of their time.Washington, as ...
06/22/11 Bedford Co., VA- There are still so many questions about Thomas Jefferson's life at Poplar Forest. And, college students are helping to peel back those mysteries though archaeology.
06/20/11 APFL Football Saturday, June 17 Iowa 41, Mid-Missouri 30 Alliance Football Saturday, June 17 Sioux Falls 24, Council Bluffs Crusaders 18 Prep Baseball Saturday, June 18 Abraham Lincoln 5-8, Treynor 3-4 Monday, June 20 Thomas Jefferson at Lewis Central, 7:30 p.m. Glenwood at Creston Harlan at Denison-Schleswig Carroll Kuemper at Atlantic Red Oak at Clarinda Shenandoah at Fremont-Mills Tuesday ...
06/16/11 Thomas Jefferson's Treasury secretary might seem to be an unlikely source of insight into today's inequality debate, but old Albert Gallatin had some prophetic things to say. | 
