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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.…

North Liberty’s farmers’ market, relaunched last year as Penn Landing Market, is set to start its second season on Sunday, May 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The market will feature about two dozen purveyors of local produce, farm-fresh and handmade goods, ready-to-eat food and more. Vendors include Lopata Farms, Skyline Farm, Ardon Creek…

North Liberty’s farmers’ market, relaunched last year as Penn Landing Market, is set to start its second season on Sunday, May 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The market will feature about two dozen purveyors of local produce, farm-fresh and handmade goods, ready-to-eat food and more. Vendors include Lopata Farms, Skyline Farm, Ardon Creek…

https://vimeo.com/125298413 Before crews began installing sewer pipe for Liberty High School through what environmental consultant Kevin Griggs called “marginally suitable habitat” for ornate box turtles, we wanted to take steps to confirm the work zone was free of the animals. So, last week, once the weather warmed to the point the turtles would be active,…

The North Liberty Community Library is hosting the family-friendly Donuts & Robots from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday. They provide juice and donuts and stuff to make robots, you bring the ideas and any special supplies to want to add. The library is also hosting its regular Saturday storytime at 11 a.m. From 12…