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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1998
Page
13
Aman robbed Farmers State Bank in Raymond Black Hawk County at 12 26 pm and fled into nearby fields. No vehicle seen and authorities responded quickly with deputies and sheriff officers during lunch hour. Suspect description unavailable and weapon use not confirmed.
Police investigated gunfire in southeast Cedar Rapids after five shell casings were found in the 1600 block alley between Second and Third Avenues SE with no injuries reported. Neighbors plan a 7 pm meeting at Indian Creek Nature Center to address Maple View subdivision plans on about 16 acres between Mount Vernon Road SE and 42nd to 44th streets.
Alan Stewart, 50, Luzerne branch manager, was found dead Monday morning at Farmers 4 County Co op after a grain box hoisted in the air fell onto him. He had worked more than 30 years for the co op, with no witnesses to the incident inside a storage building west of Cedar Rapids.
Linn-Mar School Board selects a 15 acre parcel on the east side of the proposed northern 50th Street extension between 21st and 25th avenues for a future east side elementary. The district eyes buying from Eldon McMillan at 5000 dollars per acre with three year payment terms while rebidding most high school bond projects may push some work into 2000. President Mark Klopfenstein elected for the next year.
Irene Clark of Cedar Rapids and library assistant Kelly Leonard of Central City browse shelves at the new Hiawatha Library. The 8000 square foot building, costing 1 million, opened in January and was dedicated Saturday. It is twice the size of the old library and funded in part by a 450000 bond referendum approved in November 1996.
Linn County Sheriff Don Zeller plans to add local enforcement to the state sex offender registry. He will verify 180 registered offenders in Linn County live at their claimed addresses, supplementing the Iowa DCI with home visits for noncompliers. Two Linn County men listed as at risk remain at their registered addresses.
James V. Brown a former Central City music teacher faces a Linn County District Court trial on a second degree sexual abuse charge. Opening statements describe alleged acts involving a 9 year old Cedar Rapids boy during summer care at Brown’s Marion apartment.
The Mayors of grief detail five deaths of young men Travis Anderson James Miner Jr Ryan Eitland Jacob Merck and Daniel Peters in crashes near Fairview Anamosa Anamosa Monticello Mount Vernon over five months. Community members including funeral director Kevin Smith and grief counselor Rose Mary Hillman organize a public session at Lawrence Community Center to help cope with the losses. Rose Mary, a Des Moines grief educator, notes families shield children from death and stresses shared sorrow aids healing.
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