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 […]
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Puck yeah: Coralville’s still unnamed hockey team releases schedule for its debut season
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 […]
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Coralville’s still unnamed hockey team is approved by the East Coast Hockey League
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 […]
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Hy-Vee agrees to settle the class action lawsuit over its months-long data breach
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 […]
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Bus rides in Coralville will be free on Election Day
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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‘I’m ready to get to work’: Hai Huynh elected to the Coralville City Council
In a special election with a higher voter turnout than last year’s regular city election, Coralville voters elected Hai Huynh to the city council last night. Huynh scored an impressive victory in the four-candidate race, receiving 52.5 percent of the votes cast. The second-place finisher was Barry Bedford with 35.5 percent of the vote. Bedford […]
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What you need to know ahead of Coralville’s Sept. 29 special election
On Tuesday, Sept. 29, a special election will be held in Coralville to fill a vacant seat on the city council. The vacancy was created when longtime Coralville City Councilmember Tom Gill resigned in late July, after coming under fire for comments made during a virtual meeting of the council focused in part on racial […]
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White supremacist propaganda disguised as a health warning distributed in Coralville
Some Coralville residents found flyers with white supremacist messages thrown onto their lawns and driveways on Wednesday. The adhesive-backed flyers from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, were wrapped around copies of the Muscatine Parks & Recreation newsletter. Muscatine Parks & Rec, of course, has nothing to do with the National Alliance, but in addition […]
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Iowa City begins final collection of derecho debris, curbside and drop-off options available in Coralville and North Liberty
City crews will start their final round of curbside collection of large debris from the Aug. 10 derecho in Iowa City on Monday. The Public Works Department estimates that the final round may take until the end of September to complete. “Following the final pass of debris removal, residents will need to adhere to pre-storm […]
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Tens of thousands of locals still without power as derecho clean-up efforts continue in eastern Iowa
Clean up continues throughout the area following Monday’s derecho. Almost 13,000 MidAmerican Energy customers in Johnson County, including 8,825 in Iowa City, were still without power on Wednesday morning, according to the company’s outage page. Alliant Energy reports 85,048 Linn County customers without power, and 3,967 in Johnson County. Linn County REC, another regional energy […]
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Cities start clean-up of storm damage; Cedar Rapids imposes overnight curfew
The powerful line of thunderstorms that moved across Iowa on Monday left power outages and widespread damage in its wake. According to the National Weather Service the storm’s winds were strong enough to classify it as a derecho, “a widespread, long-lived straight-line wind storm.” To qualify as a derecho, a storm must create “a swath […]
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Coralville City Councilmember who called Black Lives Matter ‘criminals’ resigns
Longtime Coralville City Councilmember Tom Gill resigned on Friday, three days after making inflammatory statements about Black Lives Matter during a council meeting. “BLM, to a lot of people, is a great organization,” the five-term councilor said near the end of last Tuesday’s Zoom meeting, which was streamed publicly.
