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Trees Forever is teaming up with five local nurseries to offer $100 or $250 tree vouchers for eligible Cedar Rapids residents. Here’s how you can qualify for a voucher.

Iowa Prairie Network’s annual winter seminar theme is “Prairies in a Changing Landscape” and will be held Feb. 18 in-person and virtually at Drake University.

Mirrorbox Theatre rolling out karaoke show

A Cedar Rapids woman who has spent more than eight years volunteering her time to fight human trafficking was honored Thursday with an Outstanding Anti-Trafficking Service Award from the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking.

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Iowa’s university and college campuses this month are planning a host of lectures, activities, and events to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and his National Day of Service — including Iowa State University, featuring a lecture from a civil rights leader arrested for climbing a South Carolina State House pole in 2015 to remove its Confederate flag.

Iowa City, Marion among participating cities

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Organizers of the annual festival have a mission to turn Iowans into winter lovers and offer a bright spot during the cold winter days.

On June 16, 1945 the plane went on a mission over the Makassar Straits what was then the enemy-occupied Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. The plane strafed and bombed Japanese targets before being hit by anti-aircraft fire, crashing into the bay.

This year, the $80,000 annual grant fund was split among 24 nonprofits