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Kids will be kids at the North Liberty Community Library’s Staturday Storytime, starting at 11 a.m. It’s free and open to the public. Farmers’ market season kicks off at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 3, with the now-weekly Penn Landing Market. The market features two dozen purveyors of local produce, farm-fresh and handmade goods, ready-to-eat…

North Liberty is one of the best places in Iowa for young families, consumer finance site Nerd Wallet found based on an analysis of home affordability, prosperity and growth, quality of education and family friendliness. It’s the second year the site has conducted the analysis. The ranking was driven largely because of a 60 percent…

North Liberty is one of the best places in Iowa for young families, consumer finance site Nerd Wallet found based on an analysis of home affordability, prosperity and growth, quality of education and family friendliness. It’s the second year the site has conducted the analysis. The ranking was driven largely because of a 60 percent…

On Monday, May 4, the North Liberty Fire Department is hosting the Firefighter Bob Parker Blood Drive at the station. Bob Parker has been a member of the North Liberty Fire Department since 1971, but his ability to respond to calls to assist his community was reduced on March 7, 2012 when he was diagnosed…

Weekly update for April 20 to April 24 Langman Construction set manholes 3A and 5 (MH3A and 5, see map) Langman Construction completed rough grading to the disturbed area along the waste water treatment plant up to the connection manhole. The area is ready for topsoil to be respread and seeded. Langman placed 200 feet of…

https://vimeo.com/126187396 The North Liberty Community Pantry hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for their new “Growing Together Garden”. The new space will be used as a community wide teaching facility and the produce from the garden will be served to those who use the pantry’s services.

As part of on-going work to upgrade the sanitary sewer running under Front Street near Abigail Avenue and Muddy Creek, traffic will shift be shifted to the east side of Front Street in the evening of April 28, 2015. Two-way traffic will be maintained, but the left-turn lane at Abigail Avenue will remain closed. The work…

https://vimeo.com/125497306 The Johnson County Community Partnership for Protecting Children hosted their annual Kites for Kids festival for the first time in North Liberty at North Central Junior High. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and to raise awareness kids were given free kites to fly in remembrance of children lost to abuse.

Next month, Kevin Haworth, author of the Samuel Goldberg Foundation Prize-winning novel The Discontinuity of Small Things, will transform glass into literary art that connects two libraries in Johnson County. Haworth, a Grin City Collective writer-in-residence from Athens, Ohio, will install an excerpt from his forthcoming essay, Vivaldi, in the widows of the North Liberty…

A Friday-night book club doesn’t mean not going out. Starting at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, join the North Liberty Community Library for BYOB: Bring Your Own Book at Rocky O’Brien’s Public House, 720 Pacha Parkway to discuss The Tour by Jean Grainger. On Saturday, the library is hosts its regular Saturday storytime at 11 a.m.…