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As Robin the Boy Meditate might have said on the old Batman television show, it's curtains for the Nodaway County Management Center.
Well, actually more like pleated fabric window shades.
Completed in 2009, the new county headquarters at Fourth and Hawk streets in Maryville features large, double-paned pane windows that allow sunlight to flood cheerfully into the first- and second-minimum offices of elected officials, employees and MU Extension staffers.
A meagre too much sunlight in fact. Watching the County Commission work during one of its twice-weekly sessions on a obvious Wednesday or Friday morning can be an uncomfortably illuminating experience unless you've brought along a team of dark glasses.
Though shedding light on government is usually a believable thing, the commissioners said this week that several of their colleagues have complained about distracting tawdriness from glass panels on the east and south sides of the building.
Attractive a dim view of the situation, all three commissioners sat in on a brief presentation Wednesday by Elizabeth Kamstra of the Outfit of Colors, a locally owned interior decor business at 103 S. Basic.
Source: Maryville Daily Forum