The city will use pandemic aid, supplemented with local funds, for a voluntary relocation program intended to help residents of the mobile home park find safer and more stable housing before the park closes, as is widely anticipated.
Johnson County’s direct assistance program will launch Monday at noon. Iowa City is contributing $1.5 million in pandemic relief dollars, bringing the program’s total to $3.5 million.
The founder of Marco’s Grilled Cheese delves further into the brick and mortar restaurant business with three new openings in three months.
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.
Iowa City-based band inducted into Iowa Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame
“Thank God,” mother of 22-year-old Kaleek Jones, who was fatally shot on Ped Mall in 2017, said after the Iowa Board of Parole denied release for his killer, but will allow him to live in less restrictive unit with GPS monitoring.
Compost and wood chips are now available in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, though demand is high in the spring and summer seasons.
Elizabeth Moen’s 2022 Mission Creek Festival concert originally slated for April 7 will now be April 22.
Andre Perry, former executive director of the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, will lead Hancher Auditorium into a new era and new business model starting May 16.
The Iowa City Council expressed support for giving relocation payments to all households living in the mobile home park at the time the conditional zoning agreement was signed in June 2019. The city plans to use both local and pandemic funds for the voluntary program.
The Visiting Nurse Association will be conducting a cholesterol screening at the Senior Center in Iowa City from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13. Appointments are required.
Iowa City club and public library bring national game day play to local level
For more than a week, the pelicans have been swimming in and flying around the Iowa River as far south as Terry Trueblood Recreation Area all the way north to the Coralville Lake.
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