Daily Notebook Linn County Meetings and City Events
A compact schedule lists Linn and regional county board meetings from 8:30 a.m. with mayoral and youth council notes, plus city council sessions in ElkaDer Postville Wilton Williamsburg. Christmas lights displays run 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery and Season of Lights at Squaw Creek Park with a $7 car fee. Cedar Rapids Free Medical Clinic operates 3:15 to 6 p.m. at Jane Boyd Community House with contact numbers.
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Linn County
Linn County Board of Supervisors
C.R
Keokuk
Black Hawk
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Cedar Rapids
C Avenue
Squaw Creek Park
Marion
Cedar Rapids Free Medical Clinic
Jane Boyd
14Th Ave
Local theft report lists jewelry and firearms losses
Eastern Iowa police log itemizes stolen goods with values. At 1008 Daniels St NE a residence reported diamond earrings worth 100 and five DVDs worth 100. At 1743 E Ave NE a second dwelling reported a Mossberg 20 gauge shotgun worth 500, a 1928 Liberty half dollar worth 1000, plus wheat cents and an 1885 silver dollar with no value given.
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Daniels St. NE
E Ave. NE
Cedar Rapids
Holiday office hours and service changes in Cedar Rapids area
City of Cedar Rapids and Linn County offices will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday for Christmas and New Year. Many offices close early on Christmas Eve and New Year Eve. courts and County Attorney's Office also close. Mail delivery suspended on Christmas and New Year’s Day. express mail available. Libraries, trash, and public services adjust hours. parking meters not enforced Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. bus service limited on those days.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Marion
Hiawatha
Bluestem Solid Waste Agency
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Marion Public Library
Hiawatha Library
Five Seasons
Iowa Department of Transportation
Cedar Rapids Grandmother Fatally Struck in Hit and Run
Family mourns Darlene Slaymaker 53 after an unidentified hit and run driver killed her in Cedar Rapids. Police hunt suspect as relatives await arrest news. Funeral services planned at Murdoch-Linwood for the grandmother who loved her grandchildren.
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Andrew
Darlene
Tom
Doug
Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home
Cedar Rapids
Police seek blue 1980s car in crash on Sixth Street
Cedar Rapids police describe a light to medium blue 1980s passenger car possibly a GM product. It was last seen northbound on Sixth Street SW after crashing at 1 42 p m in the 400 block of Eighth Avenue SW striking Darlene Slaymaker. Call (319) 286 5348 with information.
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Tom
Mercy Medical Center
Slaymaker
Bowling St
Wheaton
Ill
Cedar Rapids
Doug Slaymaker
APAC
Andrew
Samantha Jean
Doug
Samantha Marie
Sixth Street
Eighth Avenue
Darlene Slaymaker
Clinton Superfund cleanup could cost up to 4.5 million
EPA on scene coordinator Kevin Larson says cleaning the Coal Gas Superfund site near Riverview Park may take up to six weeks and cost as much as 4.5 million. Dust suppression, temporary fencing, air monitoring stations and strategic truck routes will be used. The site, once a coal gas plant and later Allied Steel, is to be kept away from residential use due to coal tar cancer risks.
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Clinton
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Kevin Larson
Larson
Kansas City
Kan
Clinton Public Library
Riverview Park
Allied Steel Co
Man sentenced for witness tampering in meth case
Chris Sokol 30 formerly of Maquoketa was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Linda Reade to three years and five months in federal prison for witness tampering. He received three years of supervised release after prison and a $100 special assessment. Sokol of Highland Indiana was indicted July 5 2001 on charges of using physical force and threatening a witness in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine.
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the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Chris Sokol
Maquoketa
U.S
Linda Reade
Reade
Sokol
Highland
Ind
Def Leppard Stuns Cedar Rapids Crowd At U S Cellular Center
Def Leppard delivers a high energy show at the U S Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids drawing 4,949 fans. The band played classics like Let It Go Photograph and Rock of Ages while previews from X teased a new era for the group.
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Def Leppard
U.S. Cellular Center
C.R
The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Phil Cullen
Viv Campbell
Rick Allen
Rick Savage
Joe Elliott
Leppard
Davenport district settles abuse suit details disclosed
The Davenport school district agreed to pay 17 500 to the Jones family to settle a federal lawsuit accusing principal George Bleich of grabbing Zackery Jones and locking him in a closet. The suit broadened claims of battery emotional distress and false imprisonment involving teachers Wilkinson and Wilkins. Zackery, diagnosed with ADHD and other disorders, was moved among several area schools in 2000 and suspended for behavior. He is no longer enrolled in the district.
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Davenport
Shilo Jones
Zackery
Jones
Cameron Davidson
George Bleich
Jackson
Jackson Elementary School
Bleich
Julie Wilkinson
Deb Wilkins
Scott County
Bill da
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Council Bluffs
Lake Manawa
Review
Ricky Warwick
Shile Jones
Dorothy O’brien
Bleich and Jones
John Doak
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