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With tens of thousands of students back and bustling across Iowa’s public universities Monday, the campuses found themselves again dealing with scorching August heat and air-conditioning woes.

The National Weather Service is warning that “dangerously hot conditions” will persist through Tuesday, with heat indexes reaching 110 to 115 degrees.

Many schools continue for full-day because of adequate air conditioned classrooms

Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society

Also, the Iowa City school board will vote Tuesday on demolition of Hills Elementary

Boathouses on the Cedar River date back to the 1880s. Generations of families have called the buoyant neighborhood home in the summers, and enjoy boating and spending time on the river.

Continuing its outreach and expansion, in concert with an explosion of health care services in North Liberty, Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids is considering offering services at an “off-site location” in Johnson County — where University of Iowa Health Care is building a new 469,000-square-foot hospital and Steindler Orthopedic is constructing a new 35,880-square-foot ambulatory surgical center.