National Guard to Locate Unit in Cedar Rapids
A new Iowa Army National Guard unit will be based in Cedar Rapids with details released at a 10 am press conference at the National Guard Armory. Separately a water purification detachment will be stationed in northeast Iowa from Dubuque Armory with 1 captain and 2 officers plus 47 enlisted. An American Red Cross volunteer from Cedar Rapids heads to Guam for Typhoon Paka relief joining 223 volunteers. Peter Teahen will coordinate government relief efforts. Up to 21,000 homes on Guam damaged and 3,000 destroyed. call 1 800 435 7669 or donate to the local Red Cross chapter. Two Cedar Rapids men, Shane Murdock and Wallace Cooper, were arrested in a burglary near Palo. Murdock released after court, Cooper held on a 5000 bail.
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Iowa Army National Guard
Cedar Rapids
National Guard
18Th St. SW
Iowa
Dubuque Armory
Red Cross
Guam
Peter Teahen
Grant Wood Area
Teahen
Linn
Don Zeller
Zeller
Shane Murdock
Jana Dr. SW
Wallace Cooper
Fleetwood Rd
Murdock
Cooper
Palo
Kent Culver
Culver
Swisher man charged with shooting at hunter in Johnson County
Joseph Haman 63 was arrested Friday and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon after a hunter heard a gunshot on a Prairie du Chien Road farm December 7. Dvorak fled in fear as Haman sat in a pickup with a gun. Court records note the charge as a aggravated misdemeanor with up to two years in jail and a $5,000 fine.
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Johnson County
Joseph Haman
Stephen Gerard II
Haman
Dvorak
Field of discoveries Siem Marion High students study biology in a natural setting
Marion High School students in Dick Sloan's field biology class explore a forested area and Indian Creek observing mammal tracks and habitats. The 18 week course blends outdoor study with video projects, research papers, and field observations of plants animals and ecosystems.
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Marion High School
Gruber
Tilena Waters
Sloan
Indian Creek
Fairfield cat killings fury fuels legislative push
Iowa lawmakers face public outrage after the Fairfield cat cruelty case. Daniel Myers and Chad Lamansky, both 18, received 23 days in jail for breaking into Noah's Ark and killing 17 cats with baseball bats. Noah's Ark director David Sykes and the Iowa Federation of Humane Societies plan to lobby to make animal cruelty a felony.
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Noah’s Ark
David Sykes
Sykes
Iowa Federation of Humane Societies
Lamansky and Myers
Daniel Wilson
Wilson
Myers
Lamansky
Chuck Larson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Larson
Jones County
Fairfield
Cedar Rapids council weighs rezonings for housing and school site
Cedar Rapids City Council considers multiple development proposals including a 56 lot Primarine subdivision on Mohawk Park bluff, a 54 lot Cedar Bluff extension, and zoning changes for a new Linn-Mar elementary on East Robins Road. Public hearings likely Jan 7. A mixed use office project at Oakland Road Center Street also seeks rezoning.
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Douglas Neumann
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Bluff
42Nd Street
Seminole Valley Road
Linn-Mar
East Robins Road
Council Street
C Avenue
Oakland Road
Center Street
Hy-Vee
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Swisher
Siem
By Becky Stover
Gazette
Lisa Powell
Marion High
Michelle
Kate
Hamiston
Tilena
Waters
Nuts
Gabriel Eber
Jaimee Fickel
Jefferson High School Band of Blue
Pasadena
Calif
Knott’s Berry Farm
Disneyland
Cedar Rapids Council
New Linn-Mar
Vern Zakostelecky
Department of Development Land Development
Don Primus
Zakostelecky
J Avenue
Old Orchard Road
George Haines
Jim Sattler
Butschi Real Estate
James Rossey
Darryl High
Joseph and
Sharon Bertroche
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