Meet the Candidates: Randy Kroksh (Board of Supervisors District 4)
Primary elections for local, state, and national offices will be held in Iowa next Tuesday, June 2nd, and in Plymouth County, the only contested local primary election is in District 4 of the Board of Supervisors. KLEM is continuing our profiles of local candidates this week with Randy Kroksh, who’s running against incumbent supervisor Craig Anderson.
Born and raised in Akron, Kroksh previously taught vocational ag and FFA at Akron-Westfield for over twenty years, and has farmed on his family farm since college. Kroksh says he believes his educational and farm background would help him on the Board if elected.
Kroksh says he would help Plymouth County out in any way he can as a supervisor.
Kroksh says he would bring a “new face and a new mindset” as a supervisor.
Kroksh will run against incumbent Craig Anderson in the at-large Republican primary on June 2nd.
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Supervisors send letter of support for Merrill rail crossing studies
During the Plymouth County Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday, the Board approved a letter of support for two grant applications submitted by the Iowa Department of Transportation for the Merrill Rail Crossing Elimination and Improvements Project.
The two grants that the DOT applied for are a Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) Program Grant and a Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program Grant. The project includes preliminary engineering, environmental documentation, and final design to grade separate the existing highway-rail-at-grade crossing of the BNSF Railway with US Highway 75, as well as at two local roads. The project improves operations, safety, reliability, and emergency services.
Plymouth County engineer Tom Rohe proposed an addition to the letter that was approved, stating that the location “carries approximately 15,000 vehicles per day,” and “is the only at grade rail crossing on the Hwy 60, Hwy 75, and I-29 corridor in western Iowa.”
As part of the project, the DOT presented several proposed concepts for redesigning the crossing on Highway 75 during a public meeting on Thursday, May 14th.
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