Walton Hollow Ghosts and Ringling Circus Echoes in McGregor
A local reminiscence recalls Walton Hollow in McGregor with the Ringling brothers first circus in 1870 staged from a helper yard and a parade down Main Street. The author wanders a former Ringling home, a cobwebbed parlor, and a twilight reflection on vanished residents and ghostly laughter.
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Ringling Circus
Connie
Jeff Reinhardt
McGregor
Pike's Peak State Park
Ringling
August Ringling
Pike’s Peak State Park
McGregor Historical Society
John Ringling
Ringling Brothers
Emma Benjamin
Sandwich Islands
Benjamin
Walton Hollow
Big Circus
Earth history debate fuels long running letters to the gazette
Readers clash over evolution and creationism in a series of letters. One writer questions macroevolution by citing fossils and extinct species. another defends science and stresses critical thinking while challenging religious interference. The exchange touches science, faith, and the role of dissent in classrooms.
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Coralville Dam
Earth
Cedar Rapids street upgrades praised on Grande Avenue SE
Residents commend Cedar Rapids Streets Department for Grande Avenue SE boulevard redesign and new pavement. They note coordination with the sewer project and announce future plans such as Mount Vernon Road SE and Johnson Avenue NW. They thank Commissioner Don Thomas, the Streets and Sewer Departments, and the contractor.
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Grande Avenue SE
Mount Vernon Road
Johnson Avenue NW
Don Thomas
Streets Department
Sewer Department
Student built houses reflect great dedication
Hats off to students teachers and helpers who built student constructed homes with hundreds of hours of direction and assistance. The open houses showcase educational opportunity and the blending of construction skills with personal growth, likening their achievement to sports victories.
Unfair to Smokers in Tobacco Settlement Debate
Dennis V. Rehnke of Solon argues that Washington tax plans target smokers, calling the tobacco settlement a money grab. He warns the bill could raise cigarette taxes to about 1,700 dollars per adult smoker annually and raise retail prices from two to five dollars per pack.
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Washington
America
Congress
Dennis V. Rehnke
Solon
Two-faced rhetoric on pennies and pay raises in Iowa
A reader criticizes The Gazette editorial stance on pennies and budgets. The letter notes a two-faced approach to a one-cent sales tax versus a 4.19 percent teacher pay increase, worth $600 000 more than proposed, equating to about $33 per student. The writer, a Linn County taxpayer, argues pennies do count and accuses the editorials of misleading reasoning.
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Iowa
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids Education Association
Linn County
Gazette
Your Turn letters policy from The Gazette publication
The Gazette accepts letters and guest columns addressed to public business issues. Submissions must include writer’s full name, signature, street address and daytime phone. addresses are not published and anonymous letters are not run. Limit is 300 words per letter, one per writer per 30 days, with editing rights and no return of material.
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the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Readers share giggles from odd phrasing in local column
Joyce Seip and Mary Wolrab spot humorous and odd word choices in a column about sentences from books and daily life. Dennis Timmerman visualizes a tree as Rodin and an Iowa City reader fears gossip of her out-of-town outings.
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Wall Street Journal
Iowa River
John Doe
Dubuque Street
Dennis Timmerman
Davenport
Rodin
Iowa City
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Sigourney
Black and Blue
Craig
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Mary Wolrab
Mount Vernon
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