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Board Adopts Elementary School Boundary Change

Students Have Until Nov. 1 to Decide Whether to Attend New School.Ames Elementary School boundaries will change when Miller Avenue school opens in 2014 and again in the fall of 2016.
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Progressive activists from Iowa and Wisconsin warned Thursday at a news conference in West Des Moines that a Scott Walker presidency would be disastrous to middle class families.

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Married Couple Stabs Each Other Over American Idol

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How we react to scandal determines whether we will truly continue to live in a free country.
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LIVE UNITED Food Drive Held Through May 23

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