County supervisors expansion unlikely in Linn County ballot
Cedar Rapids Linn County voters will not vote in November on increasing the board from three to five. Supervisors Jim Houser and Lu Barron rejected the plan after noting 750 of the 12 576 signatures needed. Petitions indicate more names may come but timing and legal requirements remain hurdles. Balderston, a Republican candidate, plans to pressing the issue if elected. if not, she may restart petitions.
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Gazette Star
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Linn County
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Cedar Rapids
Road bypass plan worries Cedar Rapids preserve activists
Linn County Conservation Board warns the Highway 100 bypass near Cedar Rapids may threaten 23 acres of Rock Island Preserve wetlands prairie and forest. They seek more environmental studies and will lobby Iowa legislators as the DOT and planning commission push a design about 200 feet from the preserve northwestern edge.
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Edgewood Road
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Cedar Rapids
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National Environmental
Miranda Meyer
Rock Island
Linn County Conservation Board
Union district hires interim principal for La Porte City Elementary
Union Community school board names Joan Sainsbury of Vinton as temporary principal at La Porte City Elementary. The 58 year old former Vinton-Shellsburg principal will be paid 285 dollars per day plus travel expenses and began managing day to day duties during registration. The board had terminated Mike Whittlesey on June 19 after his firing from a Kansas teaching job amid accusations involving seven students and his appeal proceeds before an administrative law judge in Cedar Falls. A Cedar Rapids resident previously documented 58 butterfly species at the preserve from 1989 to 1991. Contact writer Cindy Hadish at 319 398 8428 or cindyh fyiowa.com
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Vinton
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Whittlesey
Cedar Falls
Mount Mercy scholarship fund receives $100000 grant
Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids was awarded a $100,000 grant from The Hearst Foundation Inc. to support William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund. The grant increases the endowment to $200,000 and funds scholarships for multiple students each year.
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Hearst
Cedar Rapids approves stadium levy for 4 year baseball project
Linn County canvass certified 17 more yes votes and five more no votes for the Veterans Memorial Stadium levy. The 30 cent per $1,000 tax rise aims to fund a $14 million base ball stadium, with $4.8 million to be raised over four years. Turnout 22.72 percent, total 17,713 votes.
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