Spanning over several acres, this year’s design features Bloomsbury Farm and their 30th anniversary logo, carefully cut into the towering cornfields that draw thousands of visitors each fall. The maze opens Sept. 12.
Five years after the 2020 derecho’s hurricane-force winds extensively damaged homes throughout the area, construction continues in Cedar Rapids and surrounding communities to replenish the housing stock that was damaged or entirely lost in the disaster.
See photos as community members competed in a unique variation of ten pin bowling.
From flower festivals and patriotic parades to county fairs and hot air balloons taking to the skies, there is so much to do, see and celebrate around Eastern Iowa in the coming months.
Annual Good Morning Cedar Rapids breakfast will be Nov. 6
A passenger train on its way to a stop in Marion in 1959 derailed near Atkins
A former Atkins city clerk has been criminally charged after an audit earlier this year found she had been misusing city funds.
Anne Hagie is a Jew, Yaser AbuDagga a Muslim. Their families live on opposite sides of a generations-old conflict. But the Eastern Iowans both fear for their loved ones in the Middle East and wish there was a way for Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace.
The firefighters were leaving the scene of one call and responding to the scene of another when the truck drove over uneven surface on the side of the road, rolled into a ditch and landed on its top.
Textile TapHaus’ new satellite taproom brings its industrial vibes to Atkins’ main street in Benton County with its fourth location.
This year, people entering the corn maze at Bloomsbury Farm may have to take a trip around the sun to get out.
Brad Shears reached the summit of the highest peak in North America at the end of May after a 4-year wait.
The Atkins City Council voted last week to censure a council member who opposed hiring a city administrator for $92,000, but another council member says those things are not related.
Agritourism site gearing up for Sunflower, Harvest festivals in rural Atkins.
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