Mechanicsville News

A motorcycle crash in Cedar County sends one man to the hospital. The accident happened just after nine o'clock Saturday night near the intersection of First Street & Walnut Street in Mechanicsville.

Julia Mae Puffer Jack, 93, passed away peacefully Wednesday, June 10, 2009, surrounded by her family.

Maxine Elizabeth Stine, 94, of Lisbon, died Friday, March 13, 2009, at Mechanicsville Nursing and Rehab Center.

One day they were busy homemakers, factory workers or business owners, all outwardly healthy, some only in their 40s or younger.

Velma June Petersen Collins, 75, of Mechanicsville, died Saturday, May 2, 2009, in Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy, Hiawatha, from cancer.

The people were so eager for us to like their state, to which they had great loyalty.

Ashley E. Himes, 17, of Mechanicsville, was called home Monday, April 13, 2009, to be with her Lord, surrounded by her family, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics after a courageous battle with cancer.

When Bridge Community Bank opens its third branch, this one in Solon, the bank's CEO said the growing town will provide it with its own opportunity to develop.

Overhead Door Co. service technician Justin Mullan of Mechanicsville loads a ladder into his work truck Monday at LADCO Heating in southwest Cedar Rapids.

Richard Hayslip, 61, died Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids after an extended illness.

As first reported on KCRG-TV9 News on Saturday, the Griffith family from Mechanicsville found the cell phone containing the last photos taken of its youngest member, 23-year-old Noel Griffith.

P&G Oral-B Laboratories celebrates the retirements of the following employees: Ronda Malcom, of Mechanicsville with 32 years service; Janice Kron of Kalona with 39 years of service; Patricia Bender of Iowa City ...

We don't normally tell stories about lost-and-found items. But, one Mechanicsville family's case caught our attention.

The parties celebrating President Obama's inauguration are continued round the clock.

Sixth, 7th and 8th grade students at Sioux City's Mater Dei Nativity School watched the inauguration ceremony in the school library.

Lawrence "Larry" J. Brimeyer, 62, died suddenly in his Mechanicsville home Monday, Jan.

An autopsy shows that the deputy director of the Iowa Department of Corrections died of a heart attack.

Two people have been arrested on drug charges after the car they were driving in got stuck in a snow drift.

Craig Smith of Stanwood chases his duck, Mother Quack, down his lane at the first annual Daffy Derby in Mechanicsville Saturday.

Corn burned inside a grain bin on a farm just north of here this morning. Firefighters from Mount Vernon and Lisbon responded to the 100 block of Linn Ridge Rd.