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The Durham Student Services bus company is telling Du Quoin school officials that they will be able to run all their regular routes on Tuesday, and everything should be back to normal, Superintendent Matt Hickam said Monday.
A bus driver walkout on Friday and a threat that they would never return to work as long as Du Quoin Unit District 300 went ahead with awarding a three-year transportation contact to Durham Student Services, was enough for the school board to change its mind.
On Sunday, the school board chose the busing bid offered by First Student Inc. for the next three-year contract; drivers preferred the southern Illinois-based Robinson Transport Inc.