CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library continued its 50th anniversary celebration with a fashion show, where old and new met on the runway. Czech & Slovak Echoes in the USA, the museum’s two-week festival highlighting Czech & Slovak culture, includes concerts, baking classes, a children’s exhibit, and on Oct. […]
Daylight Saving Time comes to an end thi...
Iowans enjoyed unseasonably warm temperatures this week, but a sure sign of the changing seasons comes with the end of Daylight Saving Time. The time change happens at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, so remember to “fall back” an hour and adjust your clocks before you go to bed on Saturday. We “lose” one […]
Monitoring underway after Iowan dies of ...
Iowa health officials announced that an Eastern Iowan has died from a rare viral illness called Lassa fever. Read more about the Oct. 28, 2024, announcement from the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services: DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has confirmed the death of a middle-aged […]
Past owners restore piece of Sykora Bake...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Auction lot No. 219 was mislabeled as a coffee bean grinder, but Don and Sheila Janda knew exactly what it was. As owners of the iconic Sykora Bakery in Czech Village during the 1990s, the couple regularly used the metal device to crush poppy seed for their kolaches, a beloved Czech […]
Xavier Catholic Schools announces new mi...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Xavier Catholic Schools Board has announced the new location for its consolidated middle school. Board members chose to purchase and remodel the existing Toyota Financial Services building, 5005 N. River Blvd. NE, the board announced Oct. 17, 2024. The site is in close proximity to Xavier High School, 6300 42nd […]
Neighbors react to preview of Ambroz apa...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Residents of the Vernon Heights neighborhood in southeast Cedar Rapids offered suggestions to the developer of an apartment complex proposed for the site of the former Buchanan School/Ambroz Recreation Center. More than 40 neighbors gathered Oct. 16, 2024, at Grant Wood Elementary School for the hour-long meeting led by Steve Emerson, […]
Cedar Rapids School Board bizarrely agre...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Cedar Rapids Community School Board voted at its Oct. 14, 2024, meeting to enter into an agreement with Shive-Hattery to build its two latest elementary schools, but the agreement includes a bizarre location for one of the buildings. According to the document agreed to by the School Board, both the […]
Cedar Rapids School Board votes again on...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Cedar Rapids School Board voted a second time on their decision to demolish Hoover and Van Buren Elementary Schools to build two new schools on those sites. School Board President Cindy Garlock noted at the beginning of the Oct. 14, 2024, meeting that the board had already approved the new […]
Preparing for an Iowa freeze
While Iowans have basked in summer-like weather for most of this fall, forecasts predict a possible freeze this week. Some parts of the state may have already experienced a light frost, but a freeze — when temperatures dip below 32 degrees — is more damaging to plants. In 2023, parts of Iowa escaped a killing […]
Photos: St. John’s Cemetery Czech histor
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — As part of its sesquicentennial celebration, the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church history committee hosted a walking tour of St. John’s Cemetery that highlighted the site’s Czech roots. More than 30 people attended the free tour on Saturday, Oct. 5, one of the events to mark 150 years since the founding of […]