Ambulance owner vows no lapse in Marengo service
Keith Young owner of the Iowa County Ambulance Service says resignations by four crew members and an EMT not officially in Marengo will not end ambulance service after August 1 in Marengo and Williamsburg. He asserts the Youngs maintain control via a 1975 contract and will staff the service, seeking compensation if others run the Marengo unit.
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Iowa County Ambulance Service
Marengo
Keith Young
Williamsburg
Young
Iowa County Board of Supervisors
Jerry Simmermaker
Simmermaker
Joan Garfield
Pat Dittman
Ken Nace
Kevin Svoboda
Elsie
Simmemaker
Youngs
Marengo Memorial Hospital
Board of Supervisors
The
Gazette
Rex Saunders
Jerry Messamer
Tom McElderry
Iowa County
Iowa Roundup Overregulation Hurts Iowa Business
Iowa business executives surveyed by Rep. Tom Tauke say excessive government regulations are their top problem among 632 responses, with 36 percent citing it as most pressing. Capital, business taxes, and other issues follow. In a separate incident, an Iowa City chase ended in a runaway youths’ capture after a 17 minute pursuit at high speeds leading to theft and traffic charges.
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Washington
Iowa
2Nd Congressional District
Tom Tauke
Linn County
Iowa State Patrol
Iowa City
Father son team win Iowa Feeder Pig Expo grand championship
Dysart duo Henry and Roger Bottema captured the grand championship at the Iowa Feeder Pig Expo in Des Moines. They earned 1000 dollars for the top pen of eight lightweight hogs and two weight class championships, showing crossbreds with Hampshire Duroc and Yorkshire backgrounds as about 750 hogs competed. Iowa leads the nation in hog production.
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Des Moines
UPI
Henry
Roger Bottema
Dysart
Iowa
Hampshire
Duroc
Yorkshire
Chase Snares Youths In High Speed Coralville Escape
Police from Coralville Iowa City Johnson County Sheriff's Department and others pursued a stolen car early Saturday. The juvenile suspects fled briefly but the vehicle was stopped without injuries and the youths were turned over to juvenile authorities.
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Coralville
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Johnson County
French visitors hitchhike through Iowa on American summer tour
Wanda Young hosts two Paris guests Bertrand Chammas and Bourgeois Phillippe who slept under an elementary school awning after a late arrival. Chammas, 21, speaks English and acts as spokesman while Phillippe, 22, does not. They plan a cross country route to Yellowstone and California before departing Sept. 4 for France, sharing experiences with local families like the Youngs who host exchange students and view travel as a family affair.
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Wanda Young
Springville
Wanda
Bertrand Chammas
Paris
France
Chammas
Bourgeois Phillippe
United States
Yellowstone National Park
California
New York
Phillippe
Youngs
States
Europe
Philippe
Iowa
Benoit Lemmel
Mrs. Young
Armed robbery at Squaw Creek Grocery in Linn County
A man with a handgun robbed a clerk at Squaw Creek Grocery 6900 Mount Vernon Road SE around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Deputies seek a white man in his mid 20s, six feet tall, about 150 pounds, with a full beard. He entered through the front door, demanded cash, and fled after placing money in a paper bag.
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Squaw Creek
Mount Vernon Road
Linn
U of prof to study urban sprawl in Iowa City
University of Iowa assistant professor Peter Fisher received a one year 35000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study who pays for public services for residential development on the urban fringe. He will analyze Cedar Rapids city spending on streets water and sewage over two decades and compare with costs from homeowners associations districts and private providers.
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Iowa City
Peter Fisher
University of Iowa
Fisher
National Science Foundation
Cedar Rapids
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Small Business Committee
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Robert L. McCoy
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Ron DeRooi
McCoy
West Branch
Amana
DeRooi
C.R
U of
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TRIN
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Anford’s
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