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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 2024
Page
1
Indigenous peoples long before European colonization used prescribed burns to shape landscapes in what would become Iowa. Mitch Ahrendsen Linn County Conservation natural resources manager notes these practices managed ecosystems and prepared grounds for later settlers.
Grace King reports Iowa districts including Cedar Rapids have reduced chronic absenteeism five months after Senate File 2435. The policy requires districts to define and address truancy with certified letters to families. Cedar Rapids has sent 1,667 such letters this school year, costing about $16,000.
Jackie Hebert recalls her father Pfc. Henry Arthur Gretten who enlisted in 1961, served in Berlin and Vietnam, and died in 1966. The Gretten family received missing medals years after his death, honoring a military life cut short.
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