Bill Sackter Day Proposed by Iowa City Officials
Iowa City to proclaim Wednesday as Bill Sackter Day with a city council resolution honoring Sackter who died at 70 in an Iowa City rooming house. Sackter gained national fame from the film Bill and Rooney’s subsequent work including a sequel and various awards.
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Bill Sackter
Iowa City
Tom Walsh
Johnson County
Sackter
Mickey Rooney
Rooney
Bill
Faribault
Minn
Minnesota
University of I Iowa
School of Social Work
Wild Bill’s
Mid American Conference of the Aging
Cedar County OKs plan for low maintenance roads
Tipton Cedar County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to design some county roads for reduced maintenance. The ordinance creates area service system A and B roads with differing maintenance levels and posting for load limits on bridges. A public hearing is required before establishing area service system B roads.
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Cedar County
Tipton
Cedar
Pedestrian Hit By Car Injures Two Legs on First Avenue West
Vicki A. Sallis 17 of 812 18th St SE drove east in the 1000 block of First Avenue West when Gary D. Miller 34 of 2249 C St SW stepped into the path. Miller sustained two broken legs and remained at Mercy Hospital in good condition Monday for treatment.
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First Avenue West
Vicki A. Sallis
18Th St
Gary D. Miller
C St
Sallis
Miller
Mercy Hospital
Street Closure on Sixth Street for Railroad Crossing Work
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railroad to install a rubber crossing starting Thursday. Traffic restricted until Saturday closure of Sixth Street SW between 33rd Avenue and Hawkeye Downs Road. Detour via 33rd Avenue, J Street and Hawkeye Downs Road SW.
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Sixth Street
33Rd Avenue
Hawkeye Downs Road
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railroad
J Street
Two Drivers Charged With Drunk Driving in Linn County
Pamela S. Hough, 30, of 114 27th St Drive SE, arrested at 6:50 p.m. in the 1600 block of Coldstream Avenue NE and charged with speeding. Mary Ellen Jarstad, 26, of Kenosha Wisconsin, arrested at 5:15 p.m. near the Interstate 380 Highway 30 interchange on drunk driving charges.
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Linn County
Pamela S. Hough
27Th St
Coldstream Avenue
Mary Ellen Jarstad
Kenosha
Wis
Weekend burglaries net $4500 in northeast Cedar Rapids
Police and sheriff reports detail two weekend burglaries in northeast Cedar Rapids. At 1458 Council St NE the thieves dismantled a window to steal over $2,000 in stereo gear from the David A Mastain residence. At 3941 Emerson Ave NE a garage break produced shop tools and an outboard motor valued at about $2,600.
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Cedar Rapids
David A. Mastain
Council St
Taken
Steven Slife
Emerson Ave
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