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CEDAR RAPIDS - Shannon Ramsay recalls Daniels Park in the northeast quadrant as a majestic green space with 'magnificent' oak trees.

Radio Iowa You are here: Home One phase of derecho clean up coming to a close in Cedar Rapids Thousands of trees in Cedar Rapids were damaged in the derecho. Debris is still being picked up from curbsides in Cedar Rapids more than five months after the derecho swept across the state. Iowa’s second-largest city was hit with the worst of the powerful storm’s 140-mile-an-hour winds. Taylor Burgin, Cedar Rapids’ construction engineering program manager, says they’re starting to approach what should be the final pickups of nonorganic debris from the August 10th disaster. “Nonorganic debr...

Special to the News Chronicle The cities of Tama and Toledo have both been chosen to participate in this year’s Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning Program. Iowa State University is conducting a survey to learn residents’ opinions on how to improve the local landscape through transportation enhancements. The goal of the project is to develop a landscape plan that will graphically illustrate the vision of the community. Input from residents is an important part of this process and ideas about community design and enhancement are valuable to the Toledo visioning committee. Survey...

C.R. Mayor to Retire from Law Firm, Still Mulling Re-Election Bid His responses during the derecho aftermath and pandemic have often been both panned and praised, but Cedar Rapids mayor Brad Hart has yet to make a decision on seeking re-election for that position in 2021. He was first elected in 2017, and while that announcement could come as early as January. he has, however, made a decision on another role he has been in for nearly 40 years. Hart will retire from the firm Bradley & Riley as a business lawyer after the first of the year. Of note for Cedar Rapids residents with the announceme...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Part-time mayor. Full-time grandfather. Those will be Mayor Brad Hart’s occupations in the New Year after he retires this week as a business lawyer from the Cedar Rapids law firm Bradley & Riley, where he’s practiced since 1990. Hart’s law career spans nearly 40 years, with his first years spent practicing in Houston. “It’s been rewarding, but it’s a hard job, and so I’ve always been planning to do this for a while now,” said Hart, 65. Hart said he expects to make a decision and announcement in January about whether he’ll seek a second term as mayor in the 2...