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Cedar Rapids plans transformation from Stump City to tree oasis City arborist Todd Fagan plants a tree during a tree planting ceremony with school children, Friday, April 30, 2021, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A rare storm called a derecho plowed through the city of 130,000 last August with 140 mph winds and left behind a j City commits millions to replacing trees lost to 2020 derecho. Posted: May 16, 2021 10:36 AM Posted By: Mike Bunge CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Until one afternoon last August, Ce...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Until one afternoon last August, Cedar Rapids had always been a lush, leafy island surrounded by a sea of corn and soybeans, with its giant oaks, sycamores and other trees towering over the community’s neighborhoods and providing a shady refuge from Iowa’s steamy summer heat. It took 45 minutes to […]