Twelve Citations Issued For Illegally In Palace Apartment
Police issued two more citations bringing the total to 12 for occupying The Palace at 616 Fourth Ave SE after the city shut the building down for up to 170 health and safety violations. The building remains vacated as repairs and enforcement continue. A sewage spill near Morgan Creek lift station sent about 250 gallons into a storm sewer flowing to the Cedar River, with roughly 1,000 gallons overflow, reported to the Iowa DNR. pumps had been under repair since June following a prior spill.
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Palace
Fourth Ave
Stacy R. Agan
Jose Estradagutirres
Morgan Creek Station
Ellis
Edgewood Roads
Morgan Creek
Cedar River
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Candlelight vigil planned for Israeli offensive in Middle East
A 9 tonight vigil at the Pedestrian Mall honors victims of the Israel Lebanon Palestine offensive and the Qana Lebanon massacre. Sponsored by People for Justice in Palestine Lebanese for Peace the Muslim American Society of Iowa Freedom Foundation and local Iowans. Call for details at two Iowa numbers.
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Lebanon
Palestine
Qana
People For Justice In
Lebanese For Peace
Muslim American Society of Iowa
Freedom Foundation
Governors vow to end state employee bonuses and curb corruption
Iowa gubernatorial candidates Jim Nussle and Chet Culver pledged to end bonuses for state employees. Nussle targets roughly 1 million in bonuses since 2004 and nearly 2 million in questionable pay. Culver proposes a zero tolerance ethics plan, bans on gifts, and whistleblower protections while curbing lobbying and revolving door practices.
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The
Gazette Des Moines
Iowa
GOP
Jim Nussle
Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium
Nussle
Chet Culver
Culver
Miller honored at memorial for Iowa’s first woman secretary of state
Ola Babcock Miller, mother of the Iowa State Patrol, was memorialized at Elm Grove Cemetery in Washington Iowa. About 50 people and two dozen troopers attended as Miller’s grandson George Gallup III received the restored headstone and a ceremonial flag. Troopers raised renewed awareness of her 1933 15 vehicle patrol pilot program later expanding into the statewide force.
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Ashington
Iowa
Ola Babcock Miller
Iowa State Patrol
Elm Grove
Miller
Washington
Rick Cicale
State Patrol
George Gallup III
Princeton
N.J
Duane Crock
the Gazette
Elm Grove Cemetery
Sharon Kurt
Steve Lawrence
Three Monticello Sisters Share Lifelong Bond at Nursing Home
Three Monticello sisters Esther Dirks, Henrietta Dirks, and Ruth Dirks, all long residents of Jones County, have spent their lives together and now live at Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Their father farmed and worked hard while their mother raised the girls.
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Onticello
Dirkssis Asther
Henrietta
Ruth
Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Jones County
John Dirks
Anna Zimmerman Dirks
Esther
Black Oak School
Dave Rasdal
the Gazette
Dirks Sisters
Esther Bohlken
Henrietta Harms
Ruth Johnson
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Gallup
Robert Garrison
Garrison
Urbandale
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