A vision for lake transformation started with Cedar Rapids citizens long before the $20 million ConnectCR bridge and lake revitalization project came to fruition.
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A vision for lake transformation started with Cedar Rapids citizens long before the $20 million ConnectCR bridge and lake revitalization project came to fruition.
The 2021 recipients are using their grants for solar projects, energy efficiency and education programs. Nonprofits, businesses or K-12 students based in Iowa City may apply for grants for projects that can be completed in 12 months, match the city’s climate action goals, are “impactful and measurable” and benefit a diversity of Iowa City residents.
Linn County sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash about 5:54 a.m. March 7, 2020, in Walford, according to a criminal complaint. A Chevrolet Tahoe, driven by Edwin Arenivas, 22, of Marengo, crossed the centerline and struck John Erik Halvorson’s vehicle head-on, the complaint shows.
Letter from the Editor: We open a new chapter in our history this week as we say goodbye to our printing press — affectionately referred to as Big Blue — and transition printing to Gannett Publishing Services in Des Moines.
As Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she would send Iowa State Patrol troopers to the border with Mexico, the state’s top public safety leaders raised concerns whether her commitment would leave enough staff for “law enforcement obligations in Iowa” and run up a “significant cost for sending personnel out of state,” according to records obtained by The Gazette.
On the eve of an academic year promising to be unlike any other — by being, officials hope, more than last year like many others — University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson stood with thousands of new freshmen in solidarity. “Our job is to be healthy Hawkeyes,” she said.
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Zalmay Niazy’s journey has been publicized on a national scale, including in June in The Gazette. The Afghanistan native was an interpreter for the U.S. military for three years before he left the country to build a new life in Iowa Falls.
A prosecutor says an Iowa man seen in a videotaped confrontation with a police officer during the Capitol insurrection should be returned to jail until trial because he violated terms of his release by watching anti-government internet videos about the Jan. 6 attack.
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies erred when they did not investigate a neighboring county prosecutor for drunken driving after encountering her intoxicated in her car on the side of a highway late one night in 2019, a state investigation has concluded.
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