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IOWA CITY
Danielle Pettit-Majewski was in tears.
She attended the Johnson County Board of Supervisors’ formal session April 3 because the Board was celebrating Public Health Week with …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
4/9/25 01:30 AM
IOWA CITY
Lone Tree and Hills, along with rural areas in southwestern Johnson County, will get their own Johnson County Supervisor under legislation that was passed by the state legislature last …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
3/26/25 02:42 AM
IOWA CITY
Johnson County is moving ahead with plans to strengthen the structure of the county jail.
The Board of Supervisors, during its March 13 formal session, approved a professional …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
3/18/25 11:27 PM
IOWA CITY
Property tax bills will be increasing in Johnson County in Fiscal Year 2026.
But just how much?
As the Board of Supervisors and the county’s financial staffers finalize …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
3/11/25 11:38 PM
IOWA CITY
A 6.5 million road restoration in the Stringtown area is among the road projects coming up over the spring and summer in Johnson County.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
2/26/25 12:18 AM
IOWA CITY
At a time when large federal cuts by the Trump Administration may cut jobs in the Veterans Administration, Johnson County is looking at changing the name of its Veteran Affairs Office …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
2/19/25 12:09 AM
IOWA CITY
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors intends on addressing issues at mobile home parks in the unincorporated areas of the county as soon as this week.
A number of residents …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
2/12/25 06:16 PM
IOWA CITY
The dream of a rail service connecting the University of Iowa and Iowa City with North Liberty and Coralville had become so real that Lone Tree’s Jon Green, a Johnson County …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
2/5/25 01:49 AM
IOWA CITY
While Johnson County and the City of Iowa City decide whether they will join together to build a new police facility and jail, the county is facing a repair bill of more than $3 …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
1/28/25 06:20 PM
IOWA CITY
One of Johnson County’s most growing areas has produced a road intersection that would challenge even the most gifted NASCAR driver.
Said one Johnson County Sheriff deputy: …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
1/22/25 01:54 AM
IOWA CITY
Ed Bartels, Assistant Johnson County Engineer, was appointed by the Johnson County Board of Supervisors to at least temporarily take over as the county’s lead engineer at the end …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
1/16/25 08:16 PM
HILLS
The demolition of Hills Elementary School began on Monday, Jan. 13, a process that is expected to take a few weeks. The Iowa City Community School District, of which it was a part since …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/14/25 04:59 PM
IOWA CITY
Former Lone Tree mayor Jon Green was appointed as Chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors during its organizational meeting last week and ran his first meeting the same day.
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By Paul D. Bowker |
1/8/25 01:14 AM
IOWA CITY
Jon Green, a rural Lone Tree resident and former mayor of Lone Tree, began a one-year term as Chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors with the Board’s organizational …
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Compiled and edited by Paul D. Bowker |
1/8/25 01:02 AM
IOWA CITY
Royceann Porter fought back tears as she spoke.
Porter, the first African-American to be voted to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, made her final appearance at the …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
1/2/25 11:04 PM
IOWA CITY
Public health officials in Johnson County are cautioning against drinking raw milk, especially with cases of bird flu on the rise.
“We can still get it from animals and we …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
12/27/24 09:31 PM
IOWA CITY
An event center that has been proposed for farmland northeast of Windham Village and Cosgrove ran into rezoning troubles at the Johnson County Board of Supervisors’ monthly …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
12/20/24 12:51 AM
HILLS
Nursing care facilities are among the most regulated in the country. They must meet myriad state and federal regulations, including having sufficient staff; creating individualized …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/13/24 08:00 AM
IOWA CITY
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. President nearly took out one of the five supervisors on the Johnson County Board.
V Fixmer-Oraiz, a Democrat who is the first member of the …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
12/12/24 12:03 AM
IOWA CITY
The number of hours of police protection for Lone Tree will go down next July, when the next fiscal year begins.
A Fiscal Year 2026 28E contract with the Johnson County …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/29/24 07:25 PM
