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Rural Scott County’s first private recreational park will open next year after the Board of Zoning Adjustment cleared the way for Rily and Ardita Grunwald’s snow-tubing hill near Lost Grove Lake.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/30/24
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Eldridge’s roundabout future may be launched Monday when council members must decide if the city will apply for a state grant to fund design work for Fourth Avenue and LeClaire Road.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/30/24
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Utility members continue to examine and seek more documentation of legal bills from Dickinson, Bradshaw, Fowler & Hagen, P.C. the law firm hired by previous board members and staff.
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7/30/24
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Scott County supervisors chose to decline an appeal from former Iowa congressman Steve King’s Freesoil Foundation board to pass an ordinance restricting carbon waste pipeline development in Scott County.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/24/24
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Supervisors agreed to subdivide a 40-acre residentially zoned lot near Blue Grass.
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7/24/24
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After 30 years, and $410,442.19 worth of taxpayer-funded cleanup, an abandoned gas station at 6630 Northwest Boulevard will be auctioned off, along with 60 other properties taken by the county for unpaid taxes.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/24/24
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Scott County’s Zoning Board of Adjustment will reconsider Rily Grunwald’s snow tubing hill plan for his Lost Grove Lake area property.
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7/24/24
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Scott County’s casino tax revenue dropped for the second straight year to the lowest levels since the pandemic.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/24/24
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Eldridge Mayor Frank King presents a proclamation to Nicolina Pappas and Kamden Palmer in honor of their Skip the Plastic campaign. Eldridge is the 14th town to issue the proclamation urging residents to give up plastic straws and utensils.
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7/24/24
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Grandview Farms will add a deep pit beneath a gestation barn on a slab, and modify another barn to increase confined feeding by 187 animal capacity units, or 2.8 percent of current capacity at the Dittmer’s Sheridan Township home barn site, 12090 240th St.
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7/24/24
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Walcott City council prepared for Walcott day, approving a parade route, closing appropriate streets, and giving hometown officers a raise for the day.
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Sean Romanick, NSP Intern
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7/10/24
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Imagine arriving in Eldridge on U.S. 61 and navigating four roundabouts to reach North Scott High School.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/9/24
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Park View fireworks return July 4 after last summer’s drought forced a cancellation.
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7/3/24
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Council members accepted Gee Asphalt Systems, of Cedar Rapids bid of $21,553.04, that will seal:
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7/3/24
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The Iowa Public Information Board on June 12 dismissed an open meetings complaint by Eldridge residents Jason Foust and Katie Milhollin.
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7/3/24
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Former Eldridge utility manager Jacob Rowe took city computers valued at $2,836.62, and accepted $1,028.27 in unauthorized clothing reimbursements, according to criminal charges filed June 28.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/2/24
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Eldridge council members voted unanimously Monday for a $1.025 million settlement to the family whose teenaged daughter was sexually abused by an on-duty police officer.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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7/2/24
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Former Eldridge utility manager Jacob Rowe was arrested Friday night by Eldridge Police and faces three felony and two misdemeanor charges.
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6/29/24
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Scott County supervisors agreed to 2024-2025 insurance coverage totaling $1,119,972 in annual premiums, a 13.2 percent increase from this year.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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6/26/24
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Walcott City Council met June 17 to hear residents’ concerns about a proposed Westbrook neighborhood trail, raise utility and garbage pick-up rates, and put a 2017 police Dodge Challenger up for sale.
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Sean Romanick, NSP Intern
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6/26/24
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