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Matt Coss

  • Communications and Community Engagement Director, Muscatine Community School District
  • Writer, Freelance
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Director of Communications and Community Engagement for Muscatine Community School District. Spent 23 years writing about sports for newspapers.

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More than tape and water

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By Matt Coss
| muscatine.k12.ia.us
Muscatine High School athletic trainer Nicole Calvert works with sophomore football player Lucas Buss during a game earlier this season. Calvert is in her 16th football season as the school’s athletic trainer. Monday, Sept. 28, 2026 By Matt Coss, Director of Communications It is just after 3:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, and the door to Nicole Calvert’s athletic training room at the Van Hecke Center might as well be revolving. One football player needs an ankle taped. Another has a sore shoulder.
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Beyond the pipes - Muscatine Community School District

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By Matt Coss
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025 By Matt Coss, Director of Communications Just before 8:30 on a recent Tuesday morning, Virgil Bierman and Steve Preston are sent to Room 117 at Jefferson Elementary to inspect a sink in a bathroom connected to Carissa Anderson’s kindergarten class. The faucet is producing only hot water. “Steve, we need a new (tankless) water heater,” Bierman tells his co-worker several minutes after lying underneath the sink and using a flashlight to examine the situation.
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Renovations on the horizon for historic Central Auditorium in Muscatine

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By Matt Coss
| Muscatine Journal Verified
For more than a year, Muscatine Community School District’s Central Auditorium has been dormant. School musical programs are held in gymnasiums. Dance recitals have been relocated, some even out of Muscatine. The Muscatine Symphony Orchestra has moved to Wesley United Methodist Church. Community theatre has staged productions at Muscatine Community College.
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