AMES, Iowa – May 17, 2012 – The Iowa Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration and Illinois Department of Transportation,...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Handing out City Hall payments to renters who lost possessions in the June 2008 flood will be harder than first thought, Drew Westberg, special assistant to the city manager, told the City Council Budget Committee on Friday. Westberg told the committee that he anticipated that 2,000 renters will apply to get...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — The City Council’s Budget Committee on Friday backed the use of some of the city’s local-option sales tax revenue to help cover the cost of buying land on which to build a new library, new Time Check Recreation Center, new Central Fire Station and a new Animal Control facility. All four...
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Date: 11/19/2010 Contact: Cassie Willis, (319) 286-5055 Body: The City of Cedar Rapids will observe the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 25 and Friday, November 26. Most City offices and departments will be closed. The following City services will continue to operate on those days: Cedar Rapids Public Library – Both locations closing at...
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Date: 11/18/2010 Contact: Craig Hanson, (319) 286-5802 Body: Beginning Friday, November 19, 2010 morning, there will be shoulder work on C Avenue NE during the day in the north bound turn lane onto East Robbins Road. It will take approximately two working days. Traffic should expect some delays. For a complete list of...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — If not us, then who? That was a question earlier this year after a for-sale sign went up in the 600 block of First Avenue SW where the flood-wrecked Cedar Rapids Christian Center/Foursquare Gospel Church, now demolished, had stood. No one gave the sign a second notice at this spot along...
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CEDAR RAPIDS — In what Mayor Ron Corbett called “a very critical step,” the Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Review Board on Thursday voted 5-0, with few questions or concerns, to endorse the Corps’ recommended flood-protection plan for Cedar Rapids that will move it closer to consideration for funding by the U.S. Congress....
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UPDATED 9:06 a.m. Friday Nov. 19 with Sen. Chuck Grassley’s remarks, in bold. UPDATED 5:01 p.m. with comments from Sen. Tom Harkin press secretary, in bold. UPDATED 3:36 p.m. with comments from Rev. Clint Twedt- Ball in bold. CEDAR RAPIDS – In a crucial meeting and vote this afternoon, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works...
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Date: 11/18/2010 Contact: Craig Hanson, (319) 286-5802 Body: Beginning Friday, November 19, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. the north bound lane of 3rd Street SE will be closed for a lift. The lane will be closed for approximately four hours. Traffic should expect delays or seek alternate route. For a complete list of...
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Date: 11/18/2010 Contact: Cassie Willis, (319) 286-5055 Body: This afternoon, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works Review Board approved the first step of Cedar Rapids’ Preferred Flood Management System of permanent floodwalls and levees for both sides of the Cedar River. The approval took place at USACE headquarters in Washington, D.C. ...
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Date: 11/18/2010 Contact: Cassie Willis, (319) 286-5055 Body: Today, Mayor Ron Corbett, City Manager Jeff Pomeranz, Linn County Supervisor Lu Barron and Lt. Gen. Ron Dardis, executive director of the Rebuild Iowa Office, will join representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Rock Island District for a presentation to the Civil Works...
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