Articles Tagged: Coralville

The Gary Wicklund Lifetime of Service Award has been named after and awarded to Gary Wicklund of Coralville, who has been an Alzheimer’s Association volunteer since 1977.

Public transit in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Coralville dropped their respective mask mandates following a federal court ruling that struck down the nationwide mask requirement for public transportation.

A Coralville man, who owns a child care center with his wife, was arrested Monday for allegedly sexually abusing a child under the age of 14 while the child was in his care.

The Coralville location will be the first Raising Cane’s in the Corridor after a location previously planned in Cedar Rapids fell through.

The ACLU of Iowa sent letters to the cities of Coralville, Davenport, Dubuque and Bettendorf, urging each city to repeal its respective panhandling ordinance.

A bill waiting for Gov. Kim Reynolds to sign into law would strip local city councils of regulating the sale of fireworks, frustrating efforts of cities like Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to crack down on the consumer explosives in response to citizen complaints and a rise in injuries.

Iowa City-area high school students are putting together a benefit concert for the Iowa Miles of Smiles Team (MOST). Iowa MOST is a coalition of Iowa-based doctors who give their time to go to underprivileged communities in Guatemala and provide free cleft lip and palate reconstruction surgery.

A new American restaurant has found ready success in Coralville ahead of plans to expand to Marion and Des Moines.

Grammy-nominated pianist and Juilliard graduate Joyce Yang saw her career soar in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano competition — the youngest contestant at age 19. Yang, born in South Korea and now living in Atlanta, will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, with Orchestra Iowa on April 2 and 3.

Iowa is donating 146 protective helmets and 714 ballistic vests to Ukraine. They are excess expired equipment from the Department of Public Safety and 18 other law enforcement agencies.

Organizations planning special events that will occur from July 1 to June 30, 2023, are encouraged to apply for grant funding from Think Iowa City, the Iowa City/Coralville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. Potential grant projects can be cultural, educational, literary, recreational, or artistic. Each recipient may be awarded up to $5,000 for an approved event.

Most of Iowa depends on volunteer fire departments to respond to fires and other emergencies, but available volunteers can be hard to find. More and more fire departments are partnering together to make sure they’re prepared.

The Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF) will award $150,000 to its Core Grant recipients in 2023, marking the largest single-year total given by the organization since it began its grantmaking efforts 25 years ago.

Voters passed the bond referendum by 75.6 percent Tuesday to fund construction in the Clear Creek Amana school district.

Masks will no longer be required inside Iowa City facilities as of Tuesday but still will be available to visitors, the city announced Monday. North Liberty and Coralville have also ended their mask mandates.