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1972 – c. 1984; conflict printed whole in the schools file
No fight in this town's modern record cost more than the merger that ended North Liberty High School, and the record of it is itself in dispute. The schools file prints the conflict unmerged: a superintendent's obituary dates the PLJ–North Liberty merger he oversaw only to sometime after June 1972 and before about 1984; a publisher's summary of the standard local pictorial history puts the consolidation in "the early 1980s"; a conference table fixes the Shamrocks' departure to 1981. What the reached record does not contain is the fight itself — no remonstrance, petition, referendum, or board-vote split over the merger was found in any carrier this build opened, and this section does not invent one. The item therefore prints at dispute size, not controversy size: a decision whose fact no one contests, whose date three carriers contest, and whose local opposition, if any was organised, awaits the corporation's minutes and the town paper's final years as its settlers.