The Gazette Daily News Podcast: January 31

Today is Friday, Jan. 30, 2020. Here's your Gazette Daily News Podcast, a briefing on today's news:

Fog, freezing rain, and snow could be intermittent visitors on Friday. According to the National Weather Service the Cedar Rapids area could see a small chance of snow after 2 a.m., then there will be a chance of either snow or freezing rain throughout the day. The chance for fog in the morning should give away to cloudy skies, with a high of 32 degrees. The balance you can expect between snow and freezing rain should be snow in the morning and afternoon, and freezing rain as the evening progresses. However, with all this said, the overall chance of precipitation is relatively low, hovering at the 30 percent range.

A longtime Cedar Rapids-based medical training program, meant to address the shortage of family medicine physicians in the area, will be closing its doors permanently.

The Cedar Rapids Family Medicine Residency Program will be discontinued effective July 1, at the end of this academic year, Mercy Medical Center and UnityPoint-St. Luke's Hospital jointly announced earlier this week. Both Cedar Rapids hospitals have supported the Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation, which was established in 1971 to oversee the three-year residency program, the stage of a physician's training that follows medical school.

Humans have occupied Wickiup Hill for at least 8,000 years, and the area is rich in what archaeologists call 'prehistory.'

The site near Toddville, northwest of Cedar Rapids, shows evidence of Native American burial mounds and villages — enough that preservationists intend to nominate it for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

Linn County supervisors have hired Leah Rogers, with Tallgrass Archaeology, to research and prepare that application. Linn County Conservation maintains a learning center and trails at the 751-acre area.

Stephen Murley, superintendent of the Iowa City Community School District, was named a finalist for a job in Wisconsin on Wednesday. Murley, 53, announced in October he would leave the top position at the Iowa City district by summer 2021.

He is one of two finalists for superintendent of Green Bay Area School District, Wisconsin's fourth-largest district, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette.

The newspaper reported Murley and another finalist, Sonia Steward of Metro Nashville Public Schools, will visit the Wisconsin district Feb. 19 or 20 and complete final interviews soon after.

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