Articles Tagged: Marion

Bequest from DeVaults will help pay for $2.8M project

It will be smaller than store in Collins Road Plaza

The shop, owned by Ben and Katy Davis, celebrated its grand reopening on July 11 at 1060 Seventh Ave.

A Marion man was arrested last week on charges that he sexually abused a child continually between September 2020 and May 2023.

As part of the rail car’s refurbishment, about 40 percent of the caboose’s skin is new.

A fire in a machine shed in Marion over the weekend resulted in the loss of everything in the building, including two trucks, a bobcat and other large equipment owned by Monarch Research Project.

Growing from two locations to seven in just six years, the Fun Not Fancy group has made serious business out of lighthearted restaurant concepts.

Also, Cedar Rapids metro cities lobby for more Tower Terrace Road funding

For about 50 years after the Stonewall Riots, most Pride events in Iowa were consigned to larger cities. Now, small towns are bringing a new definition to “hometown pride.”

Marion couple Lucas Howes and Lexi Thumann have completed a 6,000 square foot renovation, turning what was a crumbling 1866 structure into a place where tenants can have their own slice of a restored mansion.

OPN Architects was recently recognized with a 2024 Architecture Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects for designing the Marion Fire Station, which opened in 2021.

Crews are fanned out across the Cedar Rapids metro fixing streets this summer. Here’s which streets are being improved this construction season.

Also, Linn County launches healthy home repair program

Crews earlier this spring broke ground on the approximately $8.35 million project to transform Marion’s City Square with a new Central Plaza. What’s happened so far?

Celebrating five years of The Views of Marion.