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After the first week of school, Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Superintendent Joe Nelson says the district continues to learn and adapt as they offer education in the midst of COVID. To share information with the community about how that process is going, Nelson again answered some burning questions.

Are students doing a good job keeping masks on on the busses and staying in assigned seats?

39 years ago, almost exactly, a large advertisement wishing school athletes good luck appeared in the Wright County Monitor. The ad was purchased by a new store called Mister G’s and advised readers they would be opening soon. Later that month, the 102 Main Street Clarion store selling menswear opened up. At the time, the man behind the store, Larry Guth, probably could not have predicted how the store would flourish. Now, Guth is finally ready to say goodbye after four amazing decades.

The Wright County Board of Supervisors held the bid letting for work on drainage ditch 107. This is an open ditch a few miles south of Kanawha. Dan Wiedmeier of McClure Engineering noted that the work will include removing silt, widening side slopes, replacing outlets and controlling trees and stumps. All the work will take place in Wright County though it is a shared district. There were six eligible bids received for the project. The low bid was from Reutzel Excavating out of Burt, Iowa for $413,297, well below the engineer’s estimate of $589,660.