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- Brouhaha in Oakhill Jackson over weeds and native plants and the power of a City Council member to call in the mowers
- Solid waste agency prepares to capture methane at Site 2 landfill; plan is one day to convert it into energy
- City focuses anew on New Bohemia brownfields; contaminated soil at former Iowa Steel and Iowa Iron Works sites to be removed to ready for redevelopment
- City announces fifth annual bow hunt of deer
- City paints bike lanes on a stretch of Boyson Road NE to give the idea a try in city’s quest for bicycle-friendly status
- Another idea for affordable housing near Ellis Park isn’t going to work; city bought the land with state REAP grant to prevent it from being developed
- Round 2 of demos start next week: 58 on the list with paperwork still out on another 12; 70 structures came down in a first round
- City Hall has firmed up what it expects to seek for some 1,300 flood-disaster buyouts: $148 million in CDBG funds to go with an expected $27 million in FEMA money
- Flood-damaged Grant Wood window at the Veterans Memorial Building is coming out for repairs; entrusted to a Davenport firm owned by a disabled Vietnam War vet
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