Long-time owners Heather and Jeff Norman retiring after providing nature-based preschool to Iowa City students where they can explore the outdoors, care for the animals and learn to garden.
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Long-time owners Heather and Jeff Norman retiring after providing nature-based preschool to Iowa City students where they can explore the outdoors, care for the animals and learn to garden.
Over the next 24 years, if nothing changes, Kirkwood Community College is on track to spend nearly $40 million maintaining its 97,094-square-foot Iowa City campus – which has a current classroom-use rate under 40 percent and saw a 75-percent enrollment decline between 2016 and 2021.
Moment No. 26: The Iowa City Community School District names its North Liberty elementary school after Title IX pioneer and former Iowa women’s athletics director Christine Grant.
Volleyball wasn’t always on his radar. Now, in college, he will be playing volleyball for William Penn University in Oskaloosa during a time in which men’s volleyball is growing.
Thousands of students are set to graduate from Eastern Iowa high schools in the coming days. The Gazette spoke to students from each of 12 area high schools about their favorite memories, overcoming obstacles and their aspirations for the future.
Wilsee Kollie, who started high school ‘shy and soft-spoken,’ is graduating as a leader and advocate for equity
‘Quiet, petite’ Christina Sehna plans to go to college to study construction management, following in the footsteps of her grandfather
Bartels, a graduating senior at Marion High School, is a member of Green Bandanna, a student group that advocates for mental health awareness, named for wearing green bandannas on their backpacks.
When the fathers of Dylan Bohon and Anne Baumann died three months apart while the teens were in high school, the students found comfort in the Xavier community.
Princeton McKinney finished school at Elizabeth Tate High School in late February, two days before his father passed away. Thinking about what his father would have wanted him to do has pushed McKinney to work hard in pursuing his career as an electrician.
Having moved around her whole life, Shay Church-Roberts said she’s excited to start a new chapter of her life in a new place. The Liberty High senior will go to Fort Jackson for basic combat training as part of the U.S. Army Reserve. She will then start school next spring at Alabama State University.
Hunter Shook will continue his education at the U.S. Naval Acadamy and follow his dreams of becoming a pilot. What set the Naval Academy apart most to him was that “your responsibilities don’t stop when you’re on the ground.”
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