CEDAR RAPIDS – Elaine Hensen remembers walking to St. John’s Cemetery as a child, where her grandmother, Antonia Hac, regularly placed flowers on the graves of her late husband and a daughter, who died at birth. “I don’t think they even named her – just baby girl,” said Hensen, 71, of Cedar Rapids. Although [...]

Click here to see how The Gazette’s Max Freund created this time lapse video: CEDAR RAPIDS – A different kind of ballet came to the Paramount Theatre on Monday, bringing clean lines, lifts and turns as Nesper Sign Co. workers delicately repositioned the refurbished marquee above the theater’s boarded-up entrance. It’s one of the most [...]