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These same situations are not newsworthy on January 20th when 6-9 Buelah-Buelah is playing 9-4 GoGo HS.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the name "MFL/Mar-Mac."
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the name "MFL/Mar-Mac."
I actually googled/wiki'd it to see if there was any history behind the name. Didn't find anything on my initial search.
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I actually googled/wiki'd it to see if there was any history behind the name. Didn't find anything on my initial search.
From this site...

MFL Mar Mac Home Page

MFL MarMac is ... comprised of the communities of Monona, Farmersburg, Luana, Marquette and McGregor.

It's an Iowa school. You know this one, Snaqs?
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MFL Mar Mac Home Page

MFL MarMac is ... comprised of the communities of Monona, Farmersburg, Luana, Marquette and McGregor.

It's an Iowa school. You know this one, Snaqs?
I've heard of the towns. In Iowa, as the small towns started consolidating schools, they started getting creative with names as the schools encompassed more than two or three towns. The towns. Initially, you'd see just two town names hyphenated. Or you'd see acronyms such as "NESCO" (North East Story COunty.). Then, some of the hyphenated schools would start combining.

My favorite was BCLUW-GMG.
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I've heard of the towns. In Iowa, as the small towns started consolidating schools, they started getting creative with names as the schools encompassed more than two or three towns. The towns. Initially, you'd see just two town names hyphenated. Or you'd see acronyms such as "NESCO" (North East Story COunty.). Then, some of the hyphenated schools would start combining.

My favorite was BCLUW-GMG.
What about CMB?

I started the playoffs this year with CMB@PCM this season....
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I've heard of the towns. In Iowa, as the small towns started consolidating schools, they started getting creative with names as the schools encompassed more than two or three towns. The towns. Initially, you'd see just two town names hyphenated. Or you'd see acronyms such as "NESCO" (North East Story COunty.). Then, some of the hyphenated schools would start combining.

My favorite was BCLUW-GMG.
I actually know people who went there. Isn't that near Marshalltown?
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Two regional high schools in our area:

Wamogo High school covers the hamlets of Warren, Morris, and Goshen

Rham High School covers the villages of Hebron, Andover, and Marlborough.
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BCL-UW-GMG is about 20 minutes north of Marshalltown. Initials galore in Iowa schools anymore. Football season is even more interesting with more of the smaller schools sharing programs. And then there is OABCIG (I think I have that spelled correctly.)
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I've heard of the towns. In Iowa, as the small towns started consolidating schools, they started getting creative with names as the schools encompassed more than two or three towns. The towns. Initially, you'd see just two town names hyphenated. Or you'd see acronyms such as "NESCO" (North East Story COunty.). Then, some of the hyphenated schools would start combining.

My favorite was BCLUW-GMG.
BCLUW plays AGWSR as these two schools are in the same conference. We also have a school in Iowa named Interstate 35. They are the Roadrunners.
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What about CMB?

I started the playoffs this year with CMB@PCM this season....
Awe, memories. My first varsity game was North Polk @ CMB.

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BCLUW plays AGWSR as these two schools are in the same conference. We also have a school in Iowa named Interstate 35. They are the Roadrunners.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about I-35, about an hour south of Des Moines.
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BCLUW plays AGWSR as these two schools are in the same conference.
I had this game in Conrad (the C in BCLUW) this year.

FWIW: Beaman-Conrad-Liscomb-Union-Whitten and Ackley-Geneva-Wellsburg-Steamboat Rock. Ackley has about 1800 people. All the rest of the 8 towns combined might make that total. Maybe.
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the name "MFL/Mar-Mac."
Just don't have a combo school called MILF
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Just don't have a combo school called MILF
Are you kidding me? I'd attend that!

Meanwhile, high schools in Maine are consolidating with new names. Two consolidations in the last year, including my old school, Georges Valley, which combined with Rockland to make Oceanside High School.

I still don't care for the name. It sounds like a place you'd find Zack and Screech.

(The other one: Jay and Livermore Falls combining to make Spruce Mountain.)
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