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IOWA CITY – A nonprofit organization is ready to start a fundraising campaign for a new Iowa City animal shelter. Friends of the Animal Shelter Foundation sent a letter to City Manager Tom Markus this month saying that it plans to begin a $1 million capital campaign this summer. The city is in the design [...]

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City Public Library this summer is again providing free bus rides to children and their caregivers. The free rides, on Iowa City buses, will be available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from June 5 through Aug. 9. The buses will stop at Old Capitol Town [...]

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school district has been formally asked to review a decision not to bus students from the Miller-Orchard neighborhood to Horn Elementary School next fall. David Dude, the district’s executive director of operational services, said he received identical letters Wednesday afternoon from four families asking that their children be bused. [...]

UPDATED 10:15 a.m. to better describe the mural IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night gave its OK for a mural to be painted on the side of a five-story tall parking ramp downtown. The mural, by Iowa City artist Eliezer Sotillo , is to depict more than a dozen arms and hands that interlock and hold [...]

IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night adopted the final two pieces of a set of three ordinances aimed at limiting the number of new large apartments near downtown and the University of Iowa campus. The council voted 6-0, with Terry Dickens absent, to pass an ordinance preventing the construction of multifamily dwellings with more [...]

NORTH LIBERTY — Feeling like their children’s needs are not being met, some North Liberty parents have discussed breaking up with the Iowa City school district. For many, the idea of forming a new district is more of a sign of how frustrated they have become at what they see as the school board’s wavering [...]

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school board has set aside plans to redraw some school boundaries, a process that had been debated the past couple of months. The board Tuesday night voted 7-0 to follow Superintendent Stephen Murley’s recommendation that there be no changes in elementary school and junior high attendance zones in the [...]

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school district will seek another appraisal for the Roosevelt Elementary School property in hopes to getting more money for it. The district plans to sell the property, with the school closing at the end of this school year. The school board decided to seek bids for the property rather [...]

IOWA CITY – Connor Burr dropped marbles by the pair into a paper cup suspended by a string and attached to two skinny poles, each anchored in a container of soil, sand and clay. The contraption was a model of a type of river crossing cable system, and the cup gradually lowered as marbles were [...]

More Johnson County communities are contracting with the Cedar Valley Humane Society for their animal shelter needs. Tiffin is now using the Cedar Rapids-based shelter, and Solon also will be served by the nonprofit organization starting July 1, according to a news release. Shueyville is reviewing a contract proposal, said Bob Citrullo, executive director of [...]

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school district received just one bid for the on-the-market Roosevelt Elementary School, and it was significantly less than what the district wants for the property. The $201,595 bid, from developer Place Partners LLC in Iowa City, is well below the $770,000 appraisal the district received for the property, and [...]

IOWA CITY – A large mural meant to represent an embracing of diversity may be coming to a downtown Iowa City parking ramp. The general concept, by local artist Eliezer Sotillo, calls for hands reaching toward one another and to the viewer. It is to be painted, with a mixture of black-and-white spray paint and [...]

IOWA CITY  – Iowa City school board members Sarah Swisher and Jeff McGinness will hold a listening post from 4-5:30 p.m. May 14. The event will allow members of the public to talk with the board members and ask them questions. It will be held at the Java House at 713 Mormon Trek Blvd., Iowa [...]

The F.W. Kent Park beach in Johnson County will open for the season on May 26. Hours are 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

No lifeguards are provided. Cans, bottles, food and alcohol are prohibited.

For more information, call (319) 645-2315.

NORTH LIBERTY – The city of North Liberty has switched from the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center to the Cedar Valley Humane Society for its animal shelter needs. The city made the change, effective April 25, after Iowa City asked neighboring communities for more money to help build and operate a new facility [...]

IOWA CITY — When Victoria Phillips recently attended an orientation at Horn Elementary School, where her three children will be new students next fall, she also got a preview of their walk to school. And she didn’t like it. Neither do other parents of the approximately 30 students in Iowa City’s Miller-Orchard neighborhood who will attend [...]

IOWA CITY – Residents of several Johnson County towns can no longer  take animals to the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center. The services shut off for them include include drop-off of stray or unwanted pets and assistance for sick or injured wild animals, according to a news release. Iowa City is in the [...]

CORALVILLE – Residents will have a chance to get rid of large items next week in Coralville. The semiannual Mayor’s Clean Up Week is set for May 7-11. People can dispose of bulky items, like furniture and bathroom fixtures, by placing them curbside up to 24 hours before their regular trash collection day. Metal will [...]

News release from the city of Iowa City: The National Arbor Day Foundation and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources – Forestry Bureau are proud to announce that the City of Iowa City has received the 2011 Tree City USA award 22nd Annual Community Forestry Awards Luncheon, held at the Stoney Creek Inn, Johnston on April [...]