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Sarah Cecil performs at 3 p.m. Saturday and Amy Garland performs a rare solo show at 3 p.m. Sunday on the patio of the River Bottom Winery at Bobrook Farms in Roland.

Sarah Cecil performs at 3 p.m. Saturday and Amy Garland performs a rare solo show at 3 p.m. Sunday on the patio of the River Bottom Winery at Bobrook Farms in Roland.

Dorothy Sue (Holmes) Geer passed away on July 3, 2021, in Aloha, Oregon. She was 84 years old. She was born Dec. 2, 1936, in Wentworth, Missouri, to Ruben and Alta Holmes. She was the eighth of nine children. She had fought a courageous battle against health issues for some time. She passed away peacefully while being lovingly cared for at her daughter Katrina’s home in Aloha, Oregon. Her family expresses thankfulness to the hospice workers who helped care for her. She had lived most of he...

jfisher@timesrepublican.com Long-awaited work on the South Center Street bridge is still more than a year away but the first step toward that work begins Monday. The South Center Street Viaduct will close from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Wednesday while Stanley Consultants evaluates the bridge. The firm from Muscatine will identify needed fixes and assemble a list of priorities for the city’s consideration. “We’ll be evaluating the existing bridge itself and see what types of things ...