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Moline High School announces Illinois State Scholars
According to a press release, 37 Moline High School students in the 2024 graduating class have been recognized as Illinois State Scholars. These students include Alice Adkins, Joachim Arul, Bleu Beckwith, Riley Colclasure, Addison Cook-Gibbs, Rebecca Cramer, Elizabeth Dalton, Samantha DeBlieck, Gavin Dowdal, Zander Ealy, Gwennan Graham, Zayda Graham, Clara Graves, Marley Haley, Halle Hammond, Alexis Havercamp, Anna Hazen, Ryan Hensley, Zachary Houtekier, Jathinram Kollarapu, Venkata Kuppili, Isabella Lamphier, Johan Marquez, Kelsy McCormick, Mei Lin McDermott, Nishitha Mekala, Emeterio Moreno, John Nienhaus, Anna Otten, Sara Patil, Ankit Rajvanshi, Jaxon Roberts, Nathaniel Robertson, Logan Schelker, Alex Schimmel, Dhruvi Sharma and Sayid Sirojev.
QCA cities get funding for safe school routes
Some cities in the QCA will get money to protect kids on their way to learn through the Illinois Safe Routes to School Program. Illinois Secretary of Transportation Omer Osman announced the schools that will be getting grant money. The program is providing $9.8 million across the state. Moline will get $250,000 to build traffic lights at its seven schools, Aledo got $250,000 for a new sidewalk to complete a route across the city and Galesburg will get just under $250,000 to install new sidewalks on Fifer St. where there aren’t any.
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