Articles Tagged: Linn County

Mari Hunt Wassink combines regenerative farming and social justice, cultivating culturally important crops to make fresh, local food accessible to Eastern Iowans.

The city’s first public statue was installed in 1950 by the Boy Scouts of America in a “Strengthening the Arm of Liberty” campaign that placed about 200 Statue of Liberty replicas around the country. Earlier this year, local labor unions were tasked with strengthening a more literal arm.

A lifelong fascination with amphibians and care for wildlife ultimately led to Mary Beth Stevenson’s current job of restoring and preserving wetlands in the Cedar Rapids area.

The city’s variable cart program will launch next year with three cart sizes for residents to choose from.

A Marion man was arrested Thursday on a charge of first-degree election misconduct, after police say he wrote down a Cedar Rapids address that he hadn’t lived at for six years when he voted in the 2024 elections.

Fairfax residents will vote Nov. 4 in a mayoral election and a five-way race for three City Council seats.

After nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor — the largest single supplier of content to American libraries — would be ceasing its operations. The news quickly ricocheted through literary circles in Iowa and beyond, leaving many wondering what’s next for libraries left behind.

A bakery and Cajun restaurant is moving to downtown Cedar Rapids.

Despite Alliant Energy’s announcement that it is “deprioritizing” a site in Fairfax that had been proposed for construction of a new gas-fired power plant, city officials and residents in the small Linn County town haven’t stopped debating the issue.

Early in-person and mail-in voting begins Wednesday for Iowa's 2025 city/school elections. Here's what you need to know about checking your voter registration status, how to vote early in-person and by mail, and how to vote on Election Day, Nov. 4.

The Gazette’s Grace Nieland will curate the weekly newsletter covering Linn County news, community and culture.

The decision follows similar moves at airports across the country, who are broadly citing a desire to remain out of partisan politics.

The development will provide rapid rehousing and supportive services for community members experiencing literal homelessness.

Five of the nine Cedar Rapids City Council seats are up for election on the Nov. 4 ballot.

In-person absentee voting — sometimes called “early voting” — begins Wednesday in both Linn and Johnson counties and will run through Monday, Nov. 3. Ballots will include a host of city and school elections across the area, as well as multiple bond issues.