CEDAR RAPIDS — Volunteers taking to the streets in the Oak Hill Jackson Neighborhood do more than pick up trash. Twice-monthly litter walks were started this spring not only to beautify the flood-damaged area for this summer’s RAGBRAI ride, but to build community, says Dawn Stephens, ...

  CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids Climate Advocates and the Cornell College Environmental Club are “connecting the dots” between climate change and changes in vegetation and weather disasters on Saturday, May 5. The event begins with a program outside the Indian Creek Nature Center, 6665 Otis Road SE, at noon, following the Nature Center’s annual ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – Finishing touches take time when you’re working on a 50,000-square-foot building. With less than three months to go, artists, electricians and others are pushing ahead to meet the July 14 reopening date for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. “It’s the last-minute ...

HASTINGS, NEB. — A weekend road trip to Nebraska gave me insight into the phrase, “wild goose chase.” “Stalking” might be a more apt description of the behavior that occurs during this annual migration, and while we did see the occasional goose, the main attractions here ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — An effort to unite both sides of the Cedar River in an annual event comes with a cost. The St. Joseph’s Day parade, a long-standing tradition in Czech Village in southwest Cedar Rapids, will have a new route Saturday, March 24, that adds ...

SHUEYVILLE — Kristi Cooper doesn’t envision goat herds or flocks of chickens on her Shueyville acreage, but more fully understands available options for homeowners like her, who want to utilize their land’s bountiful potential. “I think part of it is people have become more aware of ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – A repeat of the three presidents’ 1995 dedication of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library won’t be happening, at least not this year. Museum officials had hoped to have the sitting presidents from the Czech and Slovak republics and the United ...

“The boat was so luxurious, so steady, so immense, and such a marvel of mechanism, that one could not believe he was on a boat — and there the danger lay.” — Mahala Douglas By Cindy Hadish The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — A century after the tragic end ...

WEST BRANCH - Two women - with the support of a community - have raised  $36,000 towards a veterans memorial in West Branch. They're optimistic they'll get the $29,000 more needed for completion by Veterans Day in November, but not without help. "I'm confident that we'll have ...

There are two landscape exhibitions on display currently at the Old Capitol Museum in Iowa City.  One is J.J. L’Heureux’s portraits from Antarctica.  The other is “Art / Iowa: Inspired by Landscape.”  In “Art / Iowa,” Meskwaki masterpieces mingle with images by Grant Wood and ...