O. and H. school boards continue co-op talks

A crowd filled the cafeteria of the Odessa schools March 8 for the special meeting called by the Harrington and Odessa School Boards for the purpose of discussing further the athletic cooperative between the two districts. The group was about evenly represented by people from Harrington and Odessa. Both communities have had open meetings in their respective towns this winter to discuss various aspects of the cooperative (see sidebar for the report by Mark Smith of the Davenport Times on the Harrington meeting).

The meeting was chaired by Odessa board chairman Ed Deife, who asked each board mem...