Munier Road Closure Ties Marion Bypass Project
Munier Road in Marion will close for about two months at the new Marion bypass intersection with Highway 100 as crews connect Munier to the bypass. Local traffic remains on Munier from 35th Street to Highway 100 and from 151 and 13 to Banner Drive. Grading on the bypass aims to finish late this summer with overall completion possible by fall 1996 per the Iowa Department of Transportation.
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Marion
Munier
35Th Street
Banner Drive
Iowa Department of Transportation
Palo grant funds pedestrian bridge over Dry Creek
A $500 grant from Iowa Network Services supports a 120 foot arched pedestrian bridge over Dry Creek in Palo. Palo Community Association Chairman Bill Zeller and City Council members coordinate with Parks Commissioner John Harris who is collecting bids for the project as civic groups and local businesses back safer access to city parks.
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Iowa Network Services
Dry Creek
Palo
Palo Community Association
Bill Zeller
John Harris
Brucemore Offers Free Tours During National Preservation Week
In Cedar Rapids Brucemore will host free mansion tours on Friday and Saturday with hourly start times from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The estate is located at 2160 Linden Dr. SE. Grants from the Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation topped $500 000 in 1994, a record for the foundation now Iowa's largest with permanent assets of 6.5 million. The group began in 1949 as the Community Welfare Foundation.
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Brucemore
Linden Dr. SE
Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation
Community Foundation
Community Welfare Foundation
Iowa
Cave explorers hospitalized after smoke grenade incident near Andrew
Four Comanche men were hospitalized with smoke inhalation after a military style grenade was set off in Hunter's Cave between Andrew and La Motte. One man was in critical condition. others were treated and released. Cornwell aided others to safety before help arrived.
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Jackson County
Maquoketa
Andrew
Neil Crider
Charles Crider
Andrew Cornwell
Sheriff's Department
Hunter’s Cave
la Motte
Cornwell
Aither
Savannah
Ill
Gazette Net offers electronic bulletin board service
The Gazette introduces Gazette Net an electronic bulletin board for readers to submit letters and ideas obtain forms start or suspend subscriptions place classified ads and join ongoing discussions via modem linked to Seeos California.
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Gazette Net
Flowa
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Gazette Co
Farmers convert school bus to pig-hauler on Iowa farm
On a farm north of West Branch Dave Swan and Paul Friis use an enclosed school bus to move about 8,000 hogs annually. Curt Friis and John Black own the operation, saving costs by painting the bus green and yellow and adapting the interior into movable pens for disease control and on-farm transport.
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Marlene Lucas
Dave Swan
Swan
Paul Friis
West Branch
Curt Friis
John Black
Curt
West Liberty
Friis
Highland protests road plan for Avenue of the Saints
Highland School Superintendent Ira Cunningham warns the Avenue of the Saints expressway plan risks student and bus safety at the high school with at grade access. He and district patrons will protest at the IDOT Commission meeting in Ames, pressing for an overpass or interchange.
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Highland
Molly Rees
Brent Hawkins
Avenue of the Saints
Chazette
Riverside
Iowa Department of Transportation
Ira Cunningham
Cunningham
Idot Commission
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Dave Gosch
Saints
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Washington
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