The Kiwanis Miracle League at Prospect Meadows in Marion gives kids and young adults with disabilities a league of their own.
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
The Kiwanis Miracle League at Prospect Meadows in Marion gives kids and young adults with disabilities a league of their own.
William “Bill” Alberhasky was the second-generation owner of the iconic Iowa City family-owned business John’s Grocery. His oldest son, Doug, described his father as an innovator and having a great sense of humor. The business has been in the Alberhasky family for more than 70 years.
After a monthslong battle with the insurance company, Jodi and John Philipp were finally able to begin clean up at their 13-acre farm in Benton County that was destroyed in the August 2020 derecho.
One photo at a time has amounted to a life well-lived for George Henry, who lives in Cedar Rapids. A World War II bomber pilot, a river guide in Utah and Colorado for 45 years and a lifelong photographer capturing people and animals around the world, he’s retained the photo negatives that show a life captured positively.
Even while undergoing the rigors of chemotherapy for his stage 4 colon cancer, Phil Decker was among the select few who qualified for and completed this year’s Boston Marathon.
About 89 veterans will take the day trip to Washington, D.C., to be honored in ways many have never seen before.
Herky the Hawk and Cedar Rapids Kernels’ Mr. Shucks share what it takes to be a good mascot and talk about the craziest things they’ve done.
Anne Harris Carter has been hired as the first-ever health equity manager at Linn County Public Health. The daughter of Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris, Carter will focus on addressing systematic barriers to health equity, such as racism and poverty, that community members face.
There’s more than what meets the eye at six sites in the Wickiup Hill Natural Area in Toddville — all with a different story unique to the people who lived there thousands of years before Iowa was discovered by European-American settlers.
The public will being seeing seedlings as post-derecho plans take root at the historic Cedar Rapids Brucemore estate.
A Coe College graduate who was the first in his Afghan village to learn how to read and write has spent the past 20 years supporting a school in his native country — one that educates girls as well as boys.
The name “Stephen Norman” may not ring a bell around Eastern Iowa, but plenty have known and loved him by his radio name, Ric Swann. Swann, for years part of Cedar Rapids' KZIA radio’s Schulte & Swann morning team, died of cancer early Wednesday in Ohio. He was 62.
For teens on the Grizzlies, basketball is more than a sport — it’s a life-changing opportunity. They play this weekend at the National Wheelchair Basketball Association’s National Championship in Kansas.
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