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City withdraws application for flood buy-out funds

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By Andrew Duffelmeyer
AmesNewsOnline

(May 25, 2011 - 12:30 p.m.) The Ames City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday evening to withdraw its application for funds from the state's hazard mitigation grant program after the state notified the city it wouldn't qualify for any funds.

The city applied for $4.7 million from the state to help buy out 13 properties and replace them with green space in order to mitigate future flooding. The city would have had to match 15 percent of any funds awarded, or about $715,000.

School board votes to raise breakfast, lunch prices

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By Andrew Duffelmeyer
AmesNewsOnline

(May 25, 2011 - 1 p.m.) The Ames School Board voted 6-0 Tuesday evening for a $.20 increase in lunch prices and a $.05 increase in breakfast prices for the coming school year.

The $.20 increase in lunch prices will generate an additional $49,560 in revenue for the district.

Brand Ames as "Heartland's leading edge," marketing company says

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By Andrew Duffelmeyer
AmesNewsOnline

(May 24, 2011 - 3 p.m.) Ames should brand itself as "the Heartland's leading edge" in order to differentiate itself from other similar cities in the midwest, marketing company Brand Endeavor pitched to a group of residents Tuesday,

"What we see is though you're a small town, you're really on the leading edge of what's going on in the midwest," said Christie Harper,  president of Brand Endeavor. "You're leading what's happening in the region. Ames is an innovator of a better way to do things."