Beers' typewriter centerpiece marks 50 years of history
At the Johnson County Historical Society Museum a black Underwood typewriter and wooden desk once owned by Iowa City Press-C Citizen reporter Johanna Beers are on display. Rex Branstatter notes the collection preserves local history, with Beers’ work shaping community knowledge since 1937.
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Coralville
Johnson County Historical Society Museum
Oralville
Johnson County Historical Society
Rex Brandstatter
Johanna Beers
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Branstatter
Iowa City
Johnson County
the Historical Society
Stephen Mally
the Gazette
Alexandra Drehman
The
Historical Society
Monarch Fueling Station project grows pollinator habitat in Iowa
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium launch the Monarch Fueling Station Project to convert land at ethanol and biodiesel plants into monarch habitat. Lincolnway Energy in Nevada signs on and begins seeding a two acre plot with milkweed and wildflowers in spring.
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Iowa Renewable Fuels Association
Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium
Monarch
Iowa
Cassidy Walter
Lincolnway Energy
Vada
Eric Hakmiller
Four Die In Early Christmas Day Fire In Blue Grass
Blue Grass police Sgt. Garrett Johns inspects a home on East Salem Street where four people died in an early Christmas Day fire. Emergency crews from Blue Grass Buffalo and the Scott County Sheriff’s Office responders arrived just after midnight.
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Blue Grass
Garrett Johns
East Salem Street
Buffalo
Scott County
Fatal Davenport fire highlights smoke detector need
In five days before Christmas seven people died in two Davenport area fires, raising concerns among firefighters about lack of working smoke detectors and Christmas hazards. A mobile home blaze killed a mother Kelsey Clain 23 and her children Jayden Smead 5 and Carson Smead 2, with two more children injured treated at Iowa City hospital.
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Towa
Iowa
Kelsey Clain
Jayden Smead
Carson Smead
Davenport
University of Iowa
Recycling- I C landfill bans the box
Iowa City Johnson County residents must not trash corrugated cardboard as of Tuesday at the landfill The move aims to divert over 4000 tons of bulky waste annually into recycling markets Jennifer Jordan city resource management superintendent says strong cardboard markets exist including International Paper in Cedar Rapids Throws a view of regional cardboard recycling efforts and markets
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Johnson County
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