Families Helping Families of Iowa collecting school supplies for children in Cedar Rapids until Aug. 5
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Families Helping Families of Iowa collecting school supplies for children in Cedar Rapids until Aug. 5
A Hiawatha man was arrested Monday on several charges, including attempted murder, after police say he shot twice into the car of a woman he shares a 5-year-old son with. The woman and the boy, who were in the car at the time, were not injured.
The Iowa Center for School Mental Health, founded last summer with $20 million in federal pandemic relief money, will be renamed the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health after the gift from the Chicago-based Scanlan Family Foundation.
A former lottery computer technician convicted in a scheme to rig computers to win jackpots for himself, friends and family has been paroled after serving more than five years in an Iowa prison.
The Coralville Public Library and Coralville Community Food Pantry are partnering to increase access and remove barriers to community resources, including opening a Community Fridge in the library cafe and hiring a Community Resource Navigator.
TIME MACHINE: An Iowa governor investigated and thought they were innocent in murder case, pardoning them in 1915.
Better Together 2030 has also hired an executive director to track progress of the Johnson County plan. Cady Sinnwell Gerlach will start on Aug. 1.
Jim Miller’s departure comes as the Cedar Rapids arts organization waits for the IRS to reinstate its 501(c)(3) status after it was revoked last year, before Miller came on board.
Seeing a lack of youth programming for Latinos in Cedar Rapids, LULAC started Cedar Rapids’ first Ballet Folklórico group. “Fuerzas Culturales” is practicing three times a week before the troupe’s Sept. 18 performance at Festival Latino.
Al ver la falta de programación para jóvenes latinos, LULAC creó “Fuerzas Culturales,” el primer grupo de Ballet Folklórico en Cedar Rapids. Las prácticas del grupo culminarán en un espectáculo el 18 de Septiembre en el Festival Latino.
The funding, made available through the bipartisan federal infrastructure law passed in 2021, will give grants to districts looking to swap old buses with more energy-efficient models.
Democratic candidate Mike Franken outraised Chuck Grassley over the past six weeks, but Grassley holds a commanding edge at the period’s close
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