B. Adam Burke

District agrees to start school Aug. 20, 2013

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 7:32pm
By
B. Adam Burke

SOLON– Graduation day will fall on May 18, 2014, and school will start on Aug. 20, 2013, as the Solon school board passed next year’s calendar at its January meeting.
Board members also asked a calendar committee for different start date options for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. The committee will also look at building in some snow days during the school year to avoid a late start to summer vacations.
For high school principal Nathan Wear, “It’s not so much the early start. It’s ending the semester by (winter) break.”


Brushing up at Solon’s Corridor Arts

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 7:49pm
By
B. Adam Burke

SOLON– Corridor Arts opened a Main Street studio in mid-October last year, and interest in art classes and painting lessons is growing.
Offering watercolor, acrylic and drawing lessons for children and adults, the studio is run by Susan Kennicott and Lianne Westcot as a space to practice art. Their lessons and classes are a great way for artists at all levels to set aside time and create with color, line, shape and the other components of two-dimensional aesthetics.


First day of Solon school up for grabs

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/08/2013 - 7:36pm
By
B. Adam Burke

School board to hold hearing Jan. 14 to take input on start date


Wilderness Studio decks the halls

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/08/2013 - 7:33pm
By
B. Adam Burke

SOLON– Dick Sjolund and Wilderness Studio assistant Emilee McNeal were delivering gifts a bit ahead of Santa at the Solon Nursing Care Center in December.
Sjolund surprised residents with framed photos (printed at his studio in rural Solon) and little fanfare. Sjolund has been taking portraits of the care center staff at his Wilderness Studio. He decided against a holiday sale of his pictures in favor of gifting his photos, many of which were taken and exhibited around the world.


Christmas wishes

Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 11:35am
By
B. Adam Burke

Hunter Jones, 7, told Santa she wants a parrot and a trampoline for Christmas. She was visiting jolly old St. Nick at Bridge Community Bank in Solon.


Historic Dillon’s Furrow marked in Solon

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 5:52pm
By
B. Adam Burke

SOLON– History was marked in Solon on Sunday, Nov. 25, when a plaque was set next to Highway 1 on Main Street. The marker recognizes a point in time along the line that 173 years ago was known as the new military road from Iowa City to Dubuque.
It was built for $20,000 and, after surveying, was plowed by Lyman Dillon, of Cascade. Dillon, 39 years old and born in Utica, N.Y., was single and the owner of a saw mill.