Training a rabbit to hop competitively is harder than it sounds.
Rabbits may hop instinctively, said Joan Knoebel of La Porte City, but trying to get one to follow a course and jump over obstacles of varying heights is another story altogether.
“Rabbits like to zigzag, they don’t hop in a straight line,” Knoebel said.
Over the last [...]
The moment of truth came at 6 Monday night when the 300-ton brick mansion made a right-angled uphill turn off Cedar County Road X30 onto the muddy Green Road.
Would the behemoth Buchanan Mansion, a Cedar County landmark for 125 years, remain upright or slide into the ditch?
Before more than 100 curious onlookers, the 20 crew [...]
SUTLIFF — A lot of people have Sutliff Bridge stories — grand Memorial Day celebrations, weddings, having a drink on its wood planks.
Whether the bridge will be around to inspire new stories is unknown.
Last year’s flood washed away one-third of the bridge, which opened in 1898 over the Cedar River in the northeast corner of [...]
Though trees remain scarce and Tyvek house wrap is still the dominant exterior design motif, officials here rate the town’s recovery from a nuclear-bomb-like EF5 tornado at about 75 percent complete. In the year since the May 25 tornado destroyed nearly 300 homes and killed six people in Parkersburg and two in nearby New Hartford, the town is “about 80 percent back to normal, with the rest to be made up this summer,” Mayor Bob Haylock said.
The Cedar Rapids City Council will submit an application on Aug. 7 to the League of American Bicyclists in hopes of becoming Iowa’s second bicycle-friendly community. Cedar Falls secured the distinction this year, according to the certifying organization’s Web site.
Farmers’ markets are starting to open around Iowa, and let’s face it, it can’t get here a moment too soon! Here’s what you can be on the look out for this season.
Shawn Johnson is the new Dancing with the Stars Champion. After an eleven week competition, Johnson and partner Mark Ballas narrowly won the mirror ball trophy. The difference between 1st and 2nd place was less than one percent, the closest in the eight seasons of the show.
Daniel Gibbins, the city of Cedar Rapids’ arborist, and Trees Forever of Marion have joined forces to create a contest to determine which trees of differing species in Cedar Rapids are, in fact, the city’s champion trees. Through the end of the month, residents are encouraged to nominate trees in their own yards or those in other spots in the city, whether on public or private property.
Iowans rooted for Shawn Johnson when the West Des Moines gymnast captured Olympic gold in Beijing. And they’ll be rooting tonight as she reaches for another shiny prize – the mirror ball trophy.
Parents tend to avoid issues that could upset their offspring. Money is regarded as one of those “for adults only” topics, leaving kids in the dark as their parents wrestle to make ends meet. What parents don’t understand is they might be doing more harm than good.
Rebecca Williams jumped out of the passenger side of the car driven by her friend, Maggie Birk. Williams grabbed a map of Coralville’s citywide garage sales while Birk circled the parking lot of the Coralville Recreation Center. “She’ll pick me up and then we’re off,” said Williams, of Iowa City. The pair couldn’t stay and chat — the first rule of successful garage sale shopping is be early.
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