Illness Keeps Marion Students Home About 10 Percent
Marion students miss classes this week due to illness, with over 10 percent absent at Novak Elementary and Indian Creek Elementary per Linn-Mar health officials. Starry and Emerson elementary schools report about 10 percent absences, while Marion High School returns to normal attendance.
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Emerson
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Holecek pays fine in trespassing case linked to hunt
Marion police sergeant Edward T. Holecek paid a $40 fine and $22.05 in costs after Linn Magistrate Donna Paulsen found him guilty of trespassing on land rented by Robert Zingula north of Marion. Police Chief Robert Zier has until Friday to pay a $50 fine plus costs, with no comment on appeals.
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Edward T. Holecek
Robert Zier
the Gazette
Linn
Donna Paulsen
Robert Zingula
William Long
Zingula
Linn County
Air Ambulance to Start Service in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Air Ambulance will operate 24 hours from Feb 22, serving 13 eastern Iowa counties. The Huey helicopter will pick up patients at Mercy Hospital and transport to their chosen hospital, with a $70 initial fee, $1.50 per mile, and $100 per hour after two hours.
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Cedar Hills Outage Tied to Vehicle Hit and Loader Hub
An Iowa Electric Light and Power spokesman reports 60 Cedar Hills households lost power after a vehicle struck a utility pole at Cherry Hill Road and Sharon Lane NW. The fuse blew from 10 08 to 11 05 a m as Wayne Murdock notes a city front end loader nicked a guy wire near the outage.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
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Cherry Hill Road
Sharon Lane
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Murdock
Love case to grand jury on murder charge fate awaits
Benjamin Willie Love bound over to Linn County grand jury as facts updated. He faces two counts of attempted murder and a weapon charge for the Jan 23 shootings of Ernest and William Gibson. Ernest died from gunshot wounds, with homicide ruled by the medical examiner. Grand jury convenes midweek. first degree murder possible.
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Linn County
Gene Kopecky
Love
Ernest Gibson
William
Mercy Hospital
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Harris
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Sixth Street
William Gibson
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Neighborhood center approved for Time Check St Patrick area
City Council gave informal approval to convert a former Tom Shaw’s Trim All site between 4th and 5th streets near K Avenue NW into a community center. The plan remodels the first floor initially to create two gyms and several meeting rooms with senior programs, costing about 200000 funded by the community development program, targeting opening in about a year.
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Tom Shaw
4Th
5Th Streets
K Avenue NW
St. Pat’s
Donald D. Eis Held in Linn County Detention
Donald D. Eis, 31, of 275 Owen Street NW, is being held in Linn County on a pending legal matter. He remains in custody as authorities continue investigation and processing.
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Donald D. Eis
Owen St. NW
Linn
Marion man charged after van slides in ditch
James C. Chandler, 60, of 809 Central Ave., Marion, was arrested Monday evening on a drunk driving charge and for failure to have control of his vehicle. His southbound van on county road W-58 left the road in a curve and slid on its side into a ditch just before 5 p.m. per Sheriff’s Department reports.
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James C. Chandler
Central Ave
Chandler
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