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The Gazette Company owned KCRG-TV (the call letters stand for "Cedar Rapids Gazette") until selling it to Gray Television, with the transfer being completed on October 1, 2015. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The company also owned KCRG radio (1600 AM) until selling the station to the owners of another local broadcaster, KZIA FM 102.9.
Its campus encompasses a full 60 acres (240,000 m 2) in northeastern Cedar Rapids. The 146,500-square-foot (13,610 m 2) facility is capable of managing up to 811 students under the current layout. Xavier's football, baseball, softball, and soccer fields are all located on-campus, as well as two full football and soccer practice fields.
He oversaw the addition of the Cedar Cremation Center, the Family Center and Library, the Corridor of Hope in the Chapel of Memories Mausoleum, Iowa Cremation and Companions for Life. [citation needed] Notable burials at Cedar include Bourke B. Hickenlooper (1896–1971), Iowa Governor and US Senator, and Earl Whitehill (1899–1954), MLB pitcher.
The Gazette is the primary daily newspaper for Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids Gazette won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936, under editor Verne Marshall and primarily due to his efforts and articles, for its campaign against corruption and misgovernment in the State of Iowa.
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Bourke B. Hickenlooper (1896–1971), Lieutenant Governor, 29th Governor of Iowa, 4-term U.S. Senator [5] Benny Johnson, conservative political commentator and columnist; Sami Scheetz (born 1996), member of the Iowa House of Representatives; Paul Tibbets, pilot of B-29 Enola Gay that dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan; lived in Cedar ...
Iowa Farmer Today was launched September 8, 1984, [1] at a time when the tremors of the farm crisis were being felt throughout the Midwest. Publisher Steve DeWitt held discussions for several months with the Cedar Rapids Gazette for the need for a publication focused entirely on the issues facing Iowa's farmers. The complicated business of ...
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Fox and Sac tribes at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.