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Coralville Mayor John Lundell announced on Wednesday that he will not run for reelection in November. “I am extremely proud of the positive growth and development that has occurred during my service to the City of Coralville, but it is time to step back from a leadership role,” he said in a written statement. Lundell […]
“I feel like we just did this yesterday,” Hai Huynh said at the kickoff event for her reelection campaign in Coralville’s Central Park on Monday evening. Huynh was elected to the Coralville City Council in the September 2020 special election to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Tom Gill. Huynh won the four-way […]
Following a few brief remarks from its executive director, and a round of applause from supporters and volunteers, the Coralville Community Food Pantry reopened its doors to the public on Tuesday afternoon. “This is a really good day,” Executive Director John Boller said. The pantry’s staff and volunteers we excited to welcome clients back inside […]
Activities are plentiful for anyone looking to celebrate Fourth of July in the CRANDIC. Enjoy the sunny weekend with the Freedom Festival in Cedar Rapids, Jazz Fest in Iowa City, 4thFest in Coralville — or festival hop and try to make it to all three. Of course, since it’s the Fourth of July, there will […]
Like the gardens it highlights, Project GREEN’s Open Gardens Weekend has gone through cycles of getting established, lying fallow and then growing. The first Open Gardens Weekend in 2019 was a success with more than 600 people visiting 30-plus gardens in Iowa City, according to event coordinator Beth Cody. In 2020, the event was canceled […]
Update: On June 17, the Iowa Heartlanders announced a “multi-year” affiliation with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League. The team did not disclose the length of the agreement in its stetement. All teams in the East Coast Hockey League are affiliated with NHL teams. The Minnesota team is also affiliated with the Iowa […]
Early voting in the June 8 special election to fill the vacancy on the Johnson County Board of Supervisors began on Wednesday morning and will continue through Monday, June 7. The Johnson County Auditor’s Office also began sending out absentee ballots that have been requested by mail on Wednesday. “Voting hours will be 8 a.m. […]
Iowa City and Coralville announced on Tuesday an end to their city-wide mask mandates. In written statements, both cities cited the revised guidance issued by the CDC last week stating that people who are fully vaccinated no longer need to wear masks or engage in social distancing even while indoors to mitigate the spread of […]
The still-nameless minor-league professional hockey team in Coralville unveiled the schedule for its first season on Tuesday. The team will play a total of 72 games, half on the road and half on the team’s home ice in the Xtream Arena. “We are excited to have a schedule in place as we continue to build […]
Coralville now has a minor league professional hockey team. Or rather, it will when the 2021-22 East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) season starts. The league officially approved an expansion team for Coralville on Tuesday. The team, which doesn’t have a name yet, was one of two expansion teams approved on Wednesday. The other team, also […]
Hy-Vee has reached a preliminary settlement agreement in the class action lawsuit filed by customers who had their credit and debit card information stolen during a massive data breach at some of the company’s stores in 2018 and 2019. According to papers filed in an Illinois federal court on Tuesday, the company began negotiating the […]
There will be no charge for riding the bus in Coralville on Election Day in order to make it easier for everyone to get to their polling place to vote. Coralville Transit noted in its announcement that “not all polling locations have direct transit service,” but published a list of the ones that do. Coralville […]
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