Waterloo Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald Sr. appears to again be eying a new job as he is now one of the finalists for the available chief of police job in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports Chief Fitzgerald is one of 25 qualified candidates being considered for the position. Albuquerque’s chief announced he s be retiring back in September, and the position was made public within a few days.
The report notes that Fitzgerald s current position in Waterloo has an annual salary of $141,000. The chief also oversees 137 employees. To compare, the Albuquerque police department has roughly 1,500 employees and the chief of police position pays $161,000. If this feels just a bit like Deja Vu, last month a report in a Miami, Florida newspaper reported Fitzgerald was one of 36 candidates who had applied for an opening as that city’s chief.
Hickory Hills Holiday Lights Brings a Cheerful End to 2020
Happiness and cheer were certainly rare in 2020, but the last few weeks of it brought joy to thousands in Black Hawk County, thanks to the conservation department s fundraiser and light show Holiday Lights at Hickory Hills.
The event at Hickory Hills Park near LaPorte City was $10 per car each time through. It was so successful, raising altogether $57,000 for the Conservation department and its facilities, programs, and services, that the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports new funds could be earmarked in the next fiscal year s county budget to make it even better.
At a board of supervisors meeting this week, Black Hawk County Conservation Director Mike Hendrickson proposed an additional $12,000 to the $3,000 already budgeted for the event.
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Authorities say a man fatally shot a relative on Christmas Day in a Black Hawk County home. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier says that the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 4:30 p.m. after a resident called 911 to report that there had been a shooting between family members. Forty-three-year-old Chad Buck was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Deputies determined that there was an argument before the shooting at Buck’s rural home. Capt. Mark Herbst of the sheriff’s department said in a news release that no further information, including the names of others involved, will be made public at this time pending further investigation and the results of the victim’s autopsy.
Dec 27, 2020
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) Authorities say a man fatally shot a relative on Christmas Day in an Iowa home.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 4:30 p.m. after a resident called 911 to report that there had been a shooting between family members. Forty-three-year-old Chad Buck was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Deputies determined that there was an argument before the shooting at Buck’s rural home.
Capt. Mark Herbst of the sheriff’s department said in a news release that no further information, including the names of others involved, will be made public at this time pending further investigation and the results of the victim’s autopsy.