Exhibit, opening ceremonies focus on Eastern Iowa’s vital rail history.
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Exhibit, opening ceremonies focus on Eastern Iowa’s vital rail history.
The Shellsburg Area Community Group started it’s fundraiser to restore the iconic Gold Medal Flour mural in the downtown business district.
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The exhibition uses photographs, engaging interactives, videos and augmented reality to explore the unique combination of places, people and circumstances that sparks innovation and reveals why it flourishes in some rural places but not others.
Dr. Vincent Reid credits much of who he is today to a small lab in New York City, where he and other minorities were able to thrive through a rare oasis in a scientific world largely not built for them.
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Despite inflation, labor cost and supply chain snags that stalled the original timeline, a new Steindler North Liberty Ambulatory Surgery Center now is under construction just east of Interstate 380, north of Forevergreen Road – adding to the health care construction boom underway in that community.
The State Historical Society of Iowa has awarded nearly $600,000 in grants to preserve Iowa’s historical collections and country schools, invest in communities through historic preservation, and promote Iowa history.
See what’s new this year at one of downtown Cedar Rapids’ largest annual outdoor events.
Kiley Miller has resigned from his role as president and chief executive officer of nonprofit Marion-based Trees Forever after more than two years in the role.
The Marion-based not-for-profit announced it will kickoff the sixth season of its native tree sale, on Aug. 7, with multiple sizes now available. The program enables landowners with more than three woodland acres to purchase anywhere from five to 150 native trees, in an effort to restore Linn County’s native tree canopy.
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Companies looking for minerals often go to the Iowa Geologic Site and Sample Tracking Program, a University of Iowa repository of 10 million feet of drilling samples, rock chips from more than 40,000 wells and nearly 60,000 driller’s logs from across the state.
The city of Cedar Rapids invites people to volunteer to become “Tree Buds” as part of ReLeaf Cedar Rapids. These volunteers can help water trees recently planted in city rights of way.
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