City manager blasts Iowa City animal shelter as junk
Stephen Atkins, the new Iowa City city manager, tours the Animal Control Shelter on Kirkwood Avenue and Clinton Street calling the facility a piece of junk. Supervisor Beverly Horton outlines cramped pens, poor ventilation, inadequate drainage, and lack of showers and space, urging a new building amid budget pressures and aging 17 year old facility.
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Johnson Cunty
Iowa City
Stephen Atkins
Animal Control Shelter
Kirkwood Avenue
Clinton Street
Animal Control
Beverly Horton
Horton
Lone Tree woman heads league of municipalities
Pat Less, Lone Tree city councilwoman for eight years, was elected president of the Iowa League of Municipalities at the league’s 88th annual convention in Des Moines. She will serve one year and had been vice president the prior year and a director for five years.
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Pat Less
Lone Tree
Iowa League of Municipalities
Des Moines
O. Gene Maddox
Cline
John Lemon
Ankeny
Charles Cummins
Nora Springs
Virginia Soukup
Fairfax
Maddox
League
Iowa
the Gazette
Electionopens in Washington Iowa council race today
Voters head to City Hall in Washington for a special city council election to fill the seat vacated by Michael Moore. Polls run 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. with the winner serving until the November 1987 regular election.
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Washington
Iowa
Ray Carter
Michael Loveless
City Hall
Michael Moore
Moped thrown from ninth floor window at UI campus
An 18 year old University of Iowa student James P Snodgrass was charged with third degree criminal mischief after allegedly throwing a moped from a ninth floor window at Review residence hall on Sept 13. The bike caused about 200 dollars in roof damage and was valued at 250 dollars. In a separate incident Douglas Lamont 18 of Long Grove was charged with criminal mischief for breaking the glass of a Burge Hall fire escape door after a report by a resident assistant.
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Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Campus Security
James P. Snodgrass
Snodgrass
Douglas Lamont
Long Grove
Burge Hall
Lamont
Coralville Man Charged in Burglary of Pickup Truck
Randall Hughes 26 faced second-degree burglary charges after a witness saw him break a truck’s rear window near Diamond Mill. Police nabbed him nearby. stolen items were recovered under a porch and 30 white tablets identified as amphetamines led to a possession charge. He is held on 5000 dollar bond.
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Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
Iowa City
Coralville
Randall Hughes
Diamond Mill
Hughes
Iowa man given deferred judgment in bomb threat case
Micah J. Meyer, 27, of Iowa City pleaded guilty to calling in a bomb threat to the University of Iowa Medical Laboratories on May 9. In Johnson County District Court he received a two year probation and 100 hours of community service. Two employees identified his voice to investigators.
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Johnson County Bureau
Iowa City
University of Iowa Medical Laboratories
Johnson County
Micah J. Meyer
Meyer
Med Labs
Iowa City Theater Listings Note Late Screenings
Local listings show multiple venues with films including Ruthless People and Stand By Me. Features span CAMPUS I II III ENGLERT I and CINEMA I II venues with showtimes across day and evening slots.
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Englert I
Boy Who Could
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