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CEDAR CITY -- Voters Tuesday will decide on Iron County School District's $38.5 million bond referendum.
The bond money would be spent on four projects. Three would come immediately while the fourth would be a new elementary school sometime in the future, according to Kent Peterson, Iron County district business administrator.
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Walter A. Bates, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant.
Terence P. Boyle, O'Connor & Hannan, Washington, D.C., for appellees.
Before LAY, Chief Judge, BENN...
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PAROWAN (AP) -- A southern Utah fire chief who began his career in 1958 has retired.
Albert Orton spent the last 37 years as Parowan's fire chief. He also spent 13 years as an emergency medical technician and some 36 years working for the Iron County School District.
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Competing motions for summary judgment are vying for Judge Catherine D. Perry's attention in a case between a southeastern Missouri school district and community members over the distribution of Bibles to students.
At the same time, a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether to uphold Perry's decision last September to grant a preliminary injunction barring the South Iron R- 1 School District, located in Iron County, from distributing Bibles to its students and from allowing any other group to do the same. Traditionally, Gideons International has given Bibles to the district's fifth-grade students.
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CHEYENNE -- A state commission has approved updated plans for building schools in Laramie County School Districts 1 and 2.
But the panel's staff and leaders in Laramie County School District 1 still need to iron out cost differences to build Cheyenne's South High.
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Constitutional: First Amendment - Bible Distribution - Declaratory Judgment
Roark, et al. v. South Iron R-1 School District, et al. (MLW No. 59401/Case No. 08-1847 - 12 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, C.J.)
... a Missouri district court enjoined an Iron County school district from allowing the distribution of ...
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SANDY -- The city of Sandy has hired a former educator and superintendent to gather information on whether forming a new school district would better meet the needs of Sandy children.
The city hired Mike Bennett, a former principal who was also Iron County superintendent, to gather numbers from Jordan School District about the possibility. His services will cost $7,000, said Byron Jorgenson, chief administrative officer for the city.
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A federal judge was right to enter a preliminary injunction barring the distribution of Bibles to students at an elementary school in southeastern Missouri, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday.
S. District Judge Catherine Perry of the St. Louis-based federal trial court issued the preliminary injunction last September. The injunction prohibits the South Iron R-1 School District, located in Iron County, from distributing Bibles to its students and from allowing any other group to do the same. Traditionally, Gideons International has given Bibles to the district's fifth-grade students.
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... Scott Hirschi, director of the Washington County Economic Development Council, for moderating the d...BENSON: We're the largest employer in Iron County. As the university goes, so goes the county... education where people are going back to school. But if we don't have jobs when these thousands of...Washington County School District, Intermountain Healthcare, Dixie College largest e...
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Constitutional
Roark, et al. v. South Iron R-1 School District, et al. (Case No. 08-1847 - 12 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, C.J.)
... a Missouri district court enjoined an Iron County school district from allowing the distribution of ...