CORALVILLE — A brew pub under construction in Coralville’s Iowa River Landing retail development plans to take delivery of a key component next week. A 33-barrel brew house, considered the “heart” of a microbrewery, will be delivered Wednesday, May 9 to Backpocket Brewing. The state-of-the-art brewing facility, with a capacity of more than 1,000 gallons, was [...]
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LANSING — “Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho, hee, hee, hee.” Laughing Laura Gentry greets everybody she meets in the same way. “Hahaha” reads the license plate on her little blue Mini-Cooper S. “Ha, ha, ha,” she begins every weekly session of the Lansing Laughter Club at Our Savior Lutheran Church where, at 41, she’s [...]
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A McGregor man’s English class of South Korean children have gained a bit of national media attention thanks to the Ramones. Peter Strutt, a 29-year-old international English teacher, has been teaching his young students at the Sullivan School, a private academy in the Sinsa Dong district in Seoul, to sing popular American tunes for friends [...]
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Updated by Jim Malewitz 9:01 p.m. A McGregor brewery has announced plans to expand a 25,000-barrel-per-year operation in Coralville’s Iowa River Landing district, which would make it, by far, Iowa’s largest brewery. Backpocket Brewing will open the 15,000-square-foot facility featuring a large tap room and beer garden for the public in Coralville. Backpocket currently has [...]
continue »MARQUETTE – Celebrate Valentine’s Day at the 8th Annual Progressive Dinner 4 to 9 p.m Saturday, Feb. 13 . Guests enjoy a five-course dinner, served at five participating bed and breakfasts in Marquette and McGregor. Last year a Italian-themed meal was featured and this year’s meal promises to be even better! The participating bed and breakfasts [...]
continue »Brent R. Blietz died Friday after being pinned under a trailer. According to Marquette-McGregor police chief Randall Grady, Blietz, 24, of Monona, and a co-worker were trying to release a utility trailer from a pickup near 137 Ridgewood Dr. in McGregor at around 10:25 a.m. Friday when the trailer rolled over him. Blietz was trapped [...]
continue »The Landlocked Film Festival offers many pieces in many places, but the centerpiece of the four-day event is the Iowa premiere of “16 to Life” at the Englert Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29. Known as “Duck Farm No. 13” to the folks around McGregor, where most of the footage was shot in October 2007, [...]
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