CEDAR RAPIDS — With two deaths reported from the novel coronavirus as of Monday, March 30, 2020, in Linn County, officials are urging residents to stay at home. Today alone, 88 additional cases were reported in Iowa, bringing the total [...]
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In these exceptionally trying times, as social distancing is encouraged and isolation becomes the norm, tiny signs of hope are emerging. Whether hand-written messages in business windows or chalk drawings on neighborhood sidewalks, Iowans are extending support to each other [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Novel coronavirus has been confirmed in four residents at a nursing home where two staff members previously tested positive for the virus. Heritage Specialty Care, 200 Clive Dr. SW, sent a media release on Thursday, March 26, [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Steve Shriver had mixed feelings as he and other volunteers distributed hundreds of bottles of free hand cleanser March 18, in a steady rain. Recipients at the drive-through distribution were overwhelmingly grateful, but Shriver, founder of organic lip balm and natural body care products company, Eco Lips, saw the other side, too. […]
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a public health disaster emergency on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, requiring restaurants, fitness centers, casinos and other venues to close as of noon. The disaster emergency activates the public health response and recovery aspects of the State Disaster Emergency Plan, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurants can still offer […]
UPDATE: The Indian Creek Nature Center has set June 27-28 as the new dates for this year’s Maple Syrup Festival. ADDITIONAL UPDATE: The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library also is temporarily closing. See details, below. CEDAR RAPIDS — The coronavirus pandemic has led to numerous changes in events and public gatherings. Just yesterday, […]
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds tonight recommended that Iowa schools close for four weeks, after new cases of community spread of the coronavirus were reported in the state. Reynolds plans a press conference for Monday, March 16, 2020. In addition, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) just released new guidelines that call for […]
The Iowa Department of Public Health was notified Saturday of another case of novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, bringing the total to 18 positive cases in the state and the first that has no known source of infection. Gov. Kim Reynolds called a press conference the evening of March 14, 2020 to make the […]
UPDATED: March 11, 2020, with information from University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics CEDAR RAPIDS — This year would have marked the 45th year of the SAPADAPASO Parade in downtown Cedar Rapids, which has been held, rain or shine, since 1976. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade Society posted a message on Facebook this morning, Wednesday, […]
Three Iowans likely have the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, according to testing by the Iowa Hygienic Laboratory. All three, in Johnson County, had been on a cruise in Egypt. Read more about the three cases from the Iowa Department of Public Health: Testing at Iowa’s State Hygienic Laboratory has indicated three presumptive positive […]
Given that the switch to Daylight Saving Time happens on the second Sunday in March, the 2020 time change will be the earliest possible, falling on March 8. Remember to “spring forward” and set your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed Saturday night, March 7, 2020. We lose an hour of sleep, […]
CEDAR RAPIDS — It took 40 years, but jurors deliberated just three hours to find Jerry Lynn Burns guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Michelle Martinko. The 18-year-old Kennedy High School student died in her family’s Buick outside of Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids in December 1979. More: Case begins against Jerry […]
HIAWATHA — The 2020 Winter Gardening Fair, hosted by the Linn County ISU Extension Master Gardeners, transplanted this year to a new location. Long held at the Kirkwood Community College campus in Cedar Rapids, this year’s event, on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, was moved to the Kirkwood Regional Center, 1770 Boyson Road, Hiawatha. See photos […]
