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1 dead in Maintenance changes to Madison improve road quality County fatal crash
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WINTERSET — Christopher Hannon, 42, of Winterset was pronounced dead at the scene after a single-vehicle accident around 9:51 a.m. Saturday in the 2400 block of Cumming Road in Madison County. According to a Madison County sheriff report, deputies were dispatched after a passerby discovered an overturned vehicle a short distance off the roadway. Arriving deputies then located Hannon a short distance from the overturned vehicle. Hannon appeared to have been thrown from
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Pictured is a gravel section of Osage Street north of the intersection with East Townline Road. Union County Engineer Zach Gunsolley said maintenance changes have improved the quality of the county’s gravel roads.
By BAILEY POOLMAN received comments about road. the decision to use a disc reclaimer on the front of the county motor graders, which cuts shoulders on gravel roads to allow water to drain off. “That’s just making our existing system better as a whole,” Gunsolley said. “Some p u b lic have seen our improvements of our maintenance p r a c t i c - Gunsolley es.” The dry weather has been good for secondary roads employees because it has allowed various roads such as Pole and Cherry Street roads and H-24 to have the shoulders brought up flush with the hard surface. This prevents drop off along the
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While the conditions of roads across the county in general haven’t changed much since the beginning of the year, changes have still been made in maintenance practices. Union County Engineer Zach Gunsolley said the system “overall is approximately the same as before.” But, the maintenance practices of Union County Secondary Roads has allowed for less damage to roads in the long run. “Obviously a pavement usually doesn’t go bad a year after it’s constructed. It takes decades to deteriorate,” Gunsolley said. “So, a person wouldn’t see much different between now and the beginning of the year.” However, Gunsolley has
Coinciding with that, Gunsolley made the decision to increase the size of the rock being put on gravel roads to 1.5 inches. This is to help prevent large amounts of mud on the country roads across the county. “With our mud holes that we had that I saw at the beginning of the year when I got here, I saw a need to increase the aggregate size of the rock in our rock roads,” Gunsolley said. “When roads and bridges deteriorate, it takes a long time for that road system to deteriorate. And, when it deteriorates, it takes a lot of time and effort to get it back up.” The rock is put down before major rains and is stored on the side of the road in the form of a windrow, or a long row. After a
rain, the road is too soft and the equipment too heavy to lay rock again, so a grader, which weighs less than a loaded dump truck, is sent out to bring the windrow of rock in across the road. A dump truck with fresh rock can possibly damage a muddy road further, or even get stuck in the mud. Eventually, Gunsolley hopes to reassess the needs of the road system during budget workshops in the coming season, which will allow him to decide if smaller rock will be on the menu. But, he said he won’t know until then, as he won’t know what the roads will look like in winter yet.
Concrete Gunsolley has also begun a new project by adding concrete to the mix of new rock. ROADS | 2A
the vehicle after it missed the curve, entered the ditch and rolled. Hannon was believed to be the lone occupant of the vehicle at the time of the crash. An investigation into the exact cause of the accident and circumstances surrounding the accident is ongoing. Assisting the Madison County Sheriff’s Office at the scene was the Iowa Highway State Patrol, Madison County Ambulance, Winterest Fire Department and the Madison County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Officials: No Powerball winner, jackpot swells to $650M DES MOINES (AP) — Powerball officials say there was no grand prize winner in the latest drawing, meaning one of the nation’s largest lottery jackpots will continue growing. Maura McCann of the New Hampshire Lottery says no ticket matched all six numbers following Saturday night’s drawing. The winning numbers are: 17, 19, 39, 43, 68 and Powerball 13. The new jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is
$650 million, which would be the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history. The prize has grown so large because no one has matched all six balls in more than two months, so the jackpot has grown after every drawing. The odds of winning the giant prize is one in 292.2 million. Powerball is played in 44 states as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Move-in day: Three Southwestern Community College (SWCC) students help to lift a sofa from the bed of a truck Sunday afternoon outside the Spartan Court residence hall at the college’s Creston campus. Saturday and Sunday served as move-in days at the Creston campus, before fall semester classes begin Wednesday.
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Reflection: A lone deer grazes on grass near the water’s edge Saturday evening, as its image
reflects off the water at Fogle Lake in Diagonal. The campground at Fogle Lake was nearly filled with campers.
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