Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

"That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody" will appear Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids, on its farewell tour.

The laid-back country singer has five albums to draw from when he performs Feb. 3, 2022, at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids.

The former finance director of the defunct Go Cedar Rapids was convicted for his part in the scheme to defraud a local bank in loan used to pay the failed Newbo Evolve music and cultural event i 2018.

The city of Cedar Rapids has secured a estimated $8.4 million in federal funding to help clear 2020 derecho debris from local watersheds. Initial work will begin on Willow Creek and Prairie Creek.

Among the proposals this year are bills that would require cities to prove there is a public safety need for where they place traffic cameras, and limit enforcement to speeding violations of 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit and cap the amount of revenue an agency can generate from tickets.

Nearly two dozen of the brightest and bluest musicians will perform at the Olympic South Side Theater in Cedar Rapids at 6 p.m. Saturday night, Jan. 29, for the sold-out daBluesapalooza.

Almost 10 years after it opened its first location, Jamaican Pat reopens a permanent home base in NewBo City Market, the location where it all started.

After months of debate, Cedar Rapidians voted to have the city buy and operate the privately owned waterworks company. The proposal followed complaints about water quality and water bills higher than in other Iowa cities.

Two weeks after the last LGBTQ bar in Cedar Rapids announced its closure, owner Andrew Harrison said a buyer stepped in to save the space for the community.

Cedar Rapids will allocate $500,000 of its federal American Rescue Plan Act funds toward the College Career Connection program, a new workforce partnership with Kirkwood Community College that will be the first “college promise” initiative among Iowa cities.

Last Hope, which started in the early 2000s, rescues dogs, cats and occasionally other animals. Most of the animals are in foster placements throughout the community, but newly-arrived and hard-to-place animals usually live at the shelter, where they can get regular care and training.

The Cedar Rapids Parks and Recreation Department will offer two online hiring fairs for more than 350 spring and summer seasonal positions. The fairs will take place Tuesday and Saturday.

At last week’s Marion City Council meeting, officials directed city staff to formalize a timeline and prepare documents to move forward with the fully micro-transit option, which would be in partnership with Horizons. The city is waiting for resident survey results to fully commit to the plan.

Two white Cedar Rapids parents have earned love and responded to criticism in the adoption of their Black child as their TikTok following climbed. Now, they have a book deal and run social media as a full-time job.

Civil Rights Commission Executive Director Stefanie Munsterman-Scriven works to make her community more inclusive.