Witch ancestry links Iowa woman to Salem trials
Marilyn Lodge learns Rebecca Nurse, hanged in 1692, is her eighth great grandmother after genealogical digging. The Cedar Rapids area educator and her sister traced the Nurse Sawyer line from Salem Village to Downey Iowa, visiting Salem for the 300th anniversary and tying family lore to historic events.
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Edar Rapids
Marilyn Lodge
Marilyn
Helen Lodge
Utes College
Nevada
Helen
Rebecca Nurse
Salem Village
Mass
Salem
Arthur Miller
Brucemore Mansion
Cedar Rapids
Valley High School
Des Moines
Coe College
Rebecca
New England
Massachusetts
Salem Town
Francis
Sara Nurse Sawyer
Lodge Sisters
St. Nicholas Church
Great Yarmouth
Great Britain
United States
Frog masks brighten Cedar Rapids council meeting
Cedar Rapids officials wore frog masks at a Tuesday council session in a light moment. Mayor Paul Pate helped provide the masks used to poke fun while Parks Commissioner Wade Wagner backed concerns about relocating frogs from a Freedom Festival event.
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Cedar Rapids
Wade Wagner
Wagner
Audrey Rahn
Nancy Hedges Wendler
Iowa
Idaho
Wendler
Paul Pate
Pate
Don Thomas
Public Safety
David Zahn
Jury rules for Iowa DOT in harassment case
A federal jury found that Sabine Troster Pierick an Iowa DOT employee from 1994 to 1997 was not sexually harassed by her supervisor Robert North the former DOT director who retired in January Pierick alleged harassment but witnesses testified she visited Norths office Piericks lawyer said no appeal decision yet and DOT attorney said Pierick was fired after multiple performance problems
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Dorn
Dora
Bush
Texas Rangers
Judy Fitzgibbons
28Th St. SE
Fitzgibbons
St. Luke’s Hospital
Iowa
DOT
AMES
Iowa Department of Transportation
Sabine Troster Pierick
U.S. District Court
Des Moines
Robert North
Mark Hunacek
North
Pierick
John Conger
West Des Moines
Hunacek
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Government Finance Officers Association
Linn County
Steve Tucker
Dawn Jindrich
Ellen Habel
U.S
Jenna Dorn
Iowa City
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Veterans Memorial Stadium
Fe Wagner Parks
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Jenna Dom Transit
Casey J. Boyes, M.D
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation
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American Board of Family Practice
First Avenue Family Practice
Casey J. Boyles, M.D
Awe
Cepar Rapids
Casey Boyles
M.D
Repecca McDowell
PAC
Daniel Vanden Bosch
Family Practice Associates
Matthew N. Gray, O.d
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MattHew N. Gray, M.D
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