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Summer programming for Burlington area youth has begun. The library is also offering a wide range of summer activities.

Secret sausage and fluffy pancakes stuff thousands of happy weekenders at annual event.

The Hawk Eye When the New York Times came to Burlington, they heard a story of a rundown town in despair but one of the men interviewed in the story said if he had gotten to show Burlington to The New York Times, he would have told a very different story. Terry Davis said article author Trip Gabriel did not want to go with him on a tour of Burlington,so Davis agreed to take The Hawk Eye on the tour of Burlington he had intended to give. “I want to show you how I see Burlington and the people,” he told The Hawk Eye as he began his driving tour of Burlington.

Listen to the story. The building has been reduced to a pile of rubble. The department moved out of the building in 2018; it had significant structural damage at the time. Mayor Jon Billups said the city had been looking into options to tear it down when developer Merge LLC inquired about taking the lot as part of a project to build housing downtown. The neighboring building, an old Moose Lodge, was also purchased to be torn down as part of the project. The two old buildings will be replaced with a brand new structure that will include apartments and commercial space. Billups said the city...

The Hawk Eye A California-based developer plans to transform the long-vacant building at 816 Valley St. into residential, retail and manufacturing space.  During a presentation Monday to the Burlington City Council, an architect with Iowa City-based firm Neumann Monson Architects said Kathy Hull of Long Beach, California, who has owned the former Dial soap manufacturing building since 2008, plans to redevelop the property to create 47 one-bedroom and 10 two-bedroom units on the 126,723-square-foot building's upper floors. "We are trying to get units access to as much natural daylight and...