The Springville City Council will hold a hearing tonight on a proposal to annex the site of a new quarry. B&C Materials has petitioned for a voluntary annexation of 140 acres south of Highway 151. The firm plans to operate a quarry on about 15 acres of the site, which would be south of an [...]
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UPDATED AT 1:57 P.M. 7/8/2011 TO INCLUDE REMARKS OF ED WALLACE, IOWA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ON UPTICK IN THE IOWA JOB MARKET Go Daddy has exceeded its hiring projections in the first year of its Hiawatha operation. The company has hired 300 employees in the first year in Hiawatha, with plans to add 300 more [...]
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Ten people in eastern Iowa face federal drug charges for allegedly growing and selling 2,000 pounds of marijuana over the last nine years. Moline television station WQAD-TV reports that three of the defendants were arraigned Friday in U.S. District Court in Davenport. Prosecutors also have filed a forfeiture notice to seize any property that was [...]
continue »A wind farm east of Solon will bring some permanent jobs to the area in the form of a new operations and maintenance center. PNE Wind USA will locate the center in Solon to support a 30-megawatt wind farm east of the community. It will employ a staff of five, according to a statement released [...]
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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 »From OskyNews.org Pella, Iowa – The power plant could provide up to 50,000 people with needed electricity Nelson Energy of Minneapolis, Minn., is looking to develop a traditional hydroelectric power generating facility at the Red Rock Dam located near Pella, Iowa. They are a group that focuses on the development of hydroelectric projects with one [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — A City Council committee on Monday agreed to recommend that the full council formally notify the Federal Transit Administration that the city intends to return its bus operation to the flood-damaged and still-empty Ground Transportation Center depot. The full City Council had agreed to the return to the GTC in concept [...]
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The Rebuild Iowa Office officially ended its three-year run Thursday. The special office established to help coordinate the recovery from 2008 weather disasters that caused billions of dollars in damage closed its doors Thursday and six workers left state employment, said Adam Bartelt, RIO communications specialist. “We’ve known this day was coming but it’s kind [...]
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Brad Kiburz was named director of business development for Frew Nations Group. Kiburz has been Vice President of Marketing with Rinderknecht Associates, Inc., since 1998, where he oversaw the marketing and sales operation for the company’s commercial general contracting services. Prior to that, Kiburz was in marketing and sales positions in the aerospace industry for [...]
continue »For the 28th consecutive year, Shive-Hattery is ranked among the “Engineering News Record” Top 500 Design Firms list. Shive-Hattery was ranked number 257 and jumped 20 spots from number 270 in 2010. In operation for over 115 years, the architecture and engineering firm based in Cedar Rapids, earned revenues of $37.7 million in 2010. Join [...]
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