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La Porte City locker ‘did the old style’

Shelby Smith founded Gym-N-Eat Crickets in 2018 after deciding she did not enjoy a banking and finance career abroad. She now raises common house crickets in what used to be a single-wide trailer she calls the Cricket Castle. She’s also poised for expansion.

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

The solar power generating project is in the early design stages but is something the airport has been looking at for a couple of years. The airport will use funds from the federal bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year.

But inspections and enforcement are spotty, undertaken only when someone lodges a complaint in Iowa

The Iowa Tourism Office awarded almost $300,000 in grants Tuesday to organizations throughout the state, including the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids and Think Iowa City.

Pearson on Friday enacted 50 layoffs at its Iowa City location on North Dodge, which it recently closed “and opened opportunities for employees to work in one of our Cedar Rapids facilities,” a spokesman for the company said.

Consumer banking giant Wells Fargo was ordered to pay $3.7 billion in fines and refunds to customers by U.S. government regulators, the largest fine to date against the bank, which has spent years trying to rehabilitate itself after a series of scandals tied to its sales practices.