Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

Burmese artist and Cedar Rapids resident Saw Naing Lin documents his life through decades of ethnic cleansing and war in a new exhibit at CSPS Hall.

A proposed 192-unit affordable housing development in southwest Cedar Rapids aims to complement and support the ongoing construction of the city’s new Westside Library.

Kids will play, learn and grow at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor’s newest facility — named the Busse Unit — that opened Wednesday in the Wellington Heights neighborhood in southeast Cedar Rapids.

District 1 is one of five Cedar Rapids City Council seats up for election this fall. The window for candidates to file to run for office opens Aug. 25 and closes Sept. 18.

The Saturday market hosts roughly 200 vendors who sell everything from fresh produce and flowers to crafts, baked goods and more.

Cocktail mixologists from eight Corridor establishments show us how to keep it classy at NewBo City Market’s Cocktail Classic.

Also in Government Notes, the Hawkeye Area Labor Council announced it is endorsing the Cedar Rapids school bond that will go to voters in November.

Friday was the last of this week’s send-offs across the state for the Iowa Army National Guard, but certainly not the last of thousands of thoughts, hopes and prayers that will follow the 1,800 Iowa soldiers being deployed to the Middle East.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, in Cedar Rapids for a Republican Party of Iowa fundraiser Thursday, questioned President Donald Trump’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on other countries by edict, and applauded a federal court ruling blocking Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

Old MacDonald’s Farm at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids will be closed Thursday and Friday after a goat at the farm was diagnosed with orf, a viral infection known as “sore mouth.”

The action plan builds on findings from a recent survey of area music industry professionals.

Summer in the Square, a new community program, will offer weekly programming at downtown Cedar Rapids’ Greene Square. The schedule includes a mostly free mix of concerts, fitness classes, hands-on kids activities and more.

A Marion man who crashed into a vehicle, causing injuries to a woman that ended her pregnancy, is now facing indecent contact charges. He is accused of exposing himself to one child and having inappropriate contact with another.

Also in this week’s Government Notes, I-380 ramps in Cedar Rapids will be closed overnight this week for work.

The end may be in sight for a downtown Cedar Rapids project that started eight years ago to reduce the sounds of train horns heard regularly throughout the day and night in the area.