Green Square Meals may lose planned downtown move
Cedar Rapids residents learned the Green Square Meals board may not secure a new downtown site at 601 605 Second Ave SE after all. The vacant building was to become the meals program home serving 75 to 125 people on weekdays, but availability hinges on Ecumenical Center Foundation selling its 1035 Third Ave SE facility to Cardiologists P C.
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Rick Smith
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Green Square Meals Board
The
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Park
Second Ave. SE
Locher
Ecumenical Center Foundation Board
Third Ave
P.C
Residents push to rename Iowa village Frytown official
A Cedar Rapids man asks the U S Board on Geographic Names to change the unincorporated Johnson County village officially named Williamstown to Frytown. Locals know the place as Frytown while federal maps list Williamstown.
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Gazette
Illiamstown
Hochstedler
Highway 1
Johnson County
Frytown
Randy Hochstedler
Iowa City
Williamstown
Cedar Rapids
W. Jamie Ward
U.S. Board On Geographic Names
Ward
Iowa Department of Transportation
Iowa
Michigan Moves to Leapfrog Iowa in Primary Timeline
Michigan considers moving its presidential primary to January 15 or earlier to jump ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire in the year’s calendar. Lawmakers weigh legislation to establish a January primary as Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary loom.
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Michigan
Iowa
New Hampshire
Taft Middle opens with ungraded first-day test
Maegen Lentz and peers at Taft Middle School in Cedar Rapids faced an ungraded math test on the first day of school. Teacher Beth Meade explained the assessment was to gauge recall rather than be scored. Lentz, 13, said she planned to do her best as students began a new year.
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Maegen Lentz
Taft Middle School
Cedar Rapids
Jeff Raasch
Gazette
Beth Meade
Lentz
E Ave
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