Cedar Rapids School Board weighs three minute public presentations limit
The Cedar Rapids School Board plans to vote on a revised public participation rule that would cap public comments at three minutes per speaker. The meeting at the Educational Service Center is set for 7 30 p m with earlier items including bids on property sales and a room lease to Vietnam veterans advocates.
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C.R. School Board
Cedar Rapids
Educational Service Center
Second Ave
Mary Ann Kucera
Harold Guthrie
U.S. Department of Education
Metro
Jefferson
Educational Services Center
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Linn County real estate taxes: under half paid on time
Linn County treasurer Jim Hennessey reports 47.6 percent of 87.6 million real estate taxes due were paid by Sep 30, with 41.767 million in on time payments. Delinquent sums total 2.953 million for the period, while total collections top 50.3 million for the year and distributions to taxing bodies reach 40.8 million.
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Linn County
Linn
Jim Hennessey
Hennessey
Theft of guitar from Carma Lou's House of Music
Cedar Rapids police report a $1,024 electric guitar stolen from a display rack during business hours at Carma Lou's House of Music located at 4110 Center Point Rd NE. The theft occurred Thursday.
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Carma Lou
House of Music
Center Point Rd
Cedar Rapids
Six charged with drunken driving in Linn County
Six motorists were charged with drunken driving in Linn County late Thursday into Friday. Names include Michael Anderson from Moline and Clarke Olson of Minneapolis, with arrest times from 11:05 p.m. Thursday to 3:57 a.m. Friday and locations across Linn County.
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Linn County
Michael Anderson
Moline
Ill
16Th Avenue
Lynn Blades
Iowa City
Northbrook Drive
Clarke Olson
Minneapolis
15Th Avenue
Cedar Rapids man appeals 30 day jail term. court orders year
David Brown, 26, challenged a 30 day Linn County Jail sentence while also facing a 365 day term. After four two year prison terms for drunken driving and driving while barred, he was paroled and then sent to jail. A judge ruled the orders were not inconsistent and time served did not count toward the jail sentence.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
David Brown
Sixth St. NW
Brown
Denver Dillard
August Hansell
Woman sentenced in abduction in Iowa City
In a June 21 incident at the Hy Vee parking lot, Joan Stockman of St. Charles Missouri received two years probation after pleading to assault with intent to commit serious injury. Norman Fowler also involved faced earlier pleas and sentences, while Larry Longwell was acquitted on two assault charges.
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Iowa City
Joan Stockman
St. Charles
Hollywood Blvd
Stockman
Norman Fowler
Larry Longwell
Eric Freiner
Longwell
Fowler
Missouri
Selves
Johnson County
Vinton Council opposes moving Braille School to Council Bluffs
The Vinton City Council unanimously adopted a resolution opposing consolidating the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton with the Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs. The move could affect education quality and Vinton’s economy, with public sirens to raise turnout after a meeting by Vinton Unlimited. Councilman Morris Eckhart, chairing the action committee, warned against the proposal and emphasized protecting students’ education. the school served 283 students last year, mainly from Des Moines area east.
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Vinton
Iowa Braille and
Iowa School For the Deaf
Council Bluffs
Vinton City
Vinton Unlimited
Morris Eckhart
Eckhart
Farmhouse leveled by propane blast near West Chester
A liquid propane gas explosion Friday morning leveled an unoccupied farmhouse located a mile north and a mile west of West Chester. Firefighters from Wellman and Keota battled the flames. the owner Keith Fisher lives nearby according to local fire chiefs.
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West Chester
Wellman and
Keota
Jim Mounds
Keith Fisher
Wellman
Robert Kuhns
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Offers Energy Gift Certificates
Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co announces energy gift certificates available at its commercial office in Cedar Rapids. Certificates can be used to pay current or future utility bills and are purchasable in any amount. Donors may also support Project AIDE to help others with energy costs.
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Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Iowa-Illinois
Mark Ormsby
Cedar Rapids
Ormsby
Third St. SE
Project Aide
Norwest Bank Marion Cedar Rapids offices close for Thanksgiving
The Marion and Cedar Rapids Norwest Bank offices will be closed on Thanksgiving Day November 28, 1985. Patrons are advised to use night depositories and 24 hour tellers at both locations.
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Marion
Cedar Rapids
Norwest Bank
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Center Point Road
Susan Thayer
12Th Ave
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Second Street
Scott Timmerman
Route 1
Strawberry Point
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First Street
C.R. Man
Iowa City Downtown Association
Holiday Inn
Charlotte’s Webb
Campus Theatres
Old Capitol Mall
Vinton Council
Regina Huelman
Corres
Video Land
U.S.A
OSTOM
Sun
South
Riverside
Pierson’s Flowershop & Greenhouses
East
Ellis Bivd
Center Pt. Rd
Iowa
Illinois
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Custom Designs
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Queen
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Arrow
America
Waterbeds
Ardan’s
Lindale Mall
Big Sur
Odard
Liew
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