Articles Tagged: Benton County

As the American dairy industry has struggled, Austin and Jenna Schulte got a $36,000 Value-Added Producer Grant from the USDA to create a business plan and conduct a feasibility study on opening a creamery in Benton County.

Tyler Rosenthal, 21, was driving a Honda CR-V west in the eastbound lanes of Highway 30, according to the crash report.

The driver of an SUV was killed in a head-on crash with a semi-trailer truck in Benton County Sunday evening

Two people were killed on a Benton County highway Saturday when a passing pickup struck a left-turning UTV, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.

Turning a passion into a project, Benton County Brewing Company is putting itself on the map with the types of beer other breweries don’t think about.

Benton County’s sheriff says the solutions are a ‘good resolution’, but dog owners still want ordinance overturned.

Understanding Keystone’s dog breed ban

The notices come after weeks of uncertainty for the residents and dog owners and no contact with the city

One person died in a two-vehicle crash Thursday in Benton County.

Council took no action at the meeting and said that will come at a later date.

A week after several residents of the small Benton County town of Keystone were notified they’re in violation of a city ordinance prohibiting pit bulls, Sheriff Ron Tippett says the notifications were verbal warnings only, and there is no plan to remove the dogs at this time.

The city and Benton County have ordinances prohibiting pit bulls, but dog owners and representatives from animal rights groups say targeting specific breeds is an outdated practice.

Kris Gulick, who served on the Cedar Rapids City Council from 2006 to 2018, is running in Senate 40 because he believes Iowa’s second-largest metro area "needs a voice in the Iowa Senate majority.“

Jessica Wiskus, who has also been organizing against the Navigator CO2 Ventures carbon pipeline after learning her property was in the corridor, is running as a Democratic in Senate 42. The district covers rural Linn County, wrapping around the Cedar Rapids metro area, and eastern Benton County.

The deadline to submit grant applications to the Benton County Community Foundation’s 2022 grant cycle is 5 p.m. March 15. Grants are awarded to projects within the program areas of arts and culture, community betterment, education and youth development, environment and animal welfare, health and human service.