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The Hawk Eye The former library inside Corse Elementary is stripped bare, its concrete floors exposed and some walls reduced to frames. But come August, it will be filled with tiny furniture, books, toys and bright colors. That's when 1-, 2-, and 4-year-olds enrolled at the Corse Early Childhood Center will gather on weekdays as early as 6:30 a.m. until as late as 6 p.m.  "A lot of our construction work is down this hallway, because this is where a majority of the child care rooms are," Corse Principal Bryan Baker said on a recent walk-through of the building. "To try to maximize this sp...

Bob Saar for The Hawk Eye Des Moines County engineer Brian Carter told the county supervisors and department heads yesterday that residents are ready for Des Moines County 99 to open. But we're going to have to wait. Chaired by Jim Cary while chairman Tom Broeker is away on family business, the meeting essentially began with Carter's report on the DMC-99 bridge, the Flint Bottom bridge and county roads in general. Carter said, "If it would quit raining two or three inches all at once, that would help our progress as much as anything on projects." He said Monday's storms didn't cause much dama...