Robins News

Two men went to the hospital after a crash between a pickup and a truck used to haul glass on Monday morning.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Adam Belz . If you can't burn it, what do you do with it? Leaf pickup, long an issue confined to city limits in Linn County, is now under discussion at Linn County.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Jeff Raasch . Firefighters clean up the roadway after a two-vehicle accident at County Home Road and C Avenue Extension Monday morning.

Posted on Oct 30, 2009 by Nick Pugliese . It's been a while since I blogged, which is the cardinal sin of this online venture.

Luke Jurgenson, 2, of Robins tries on the hat from a Caribbean pirate costume with the help of his mom Tammy as friend Avery Edwards , 3, looks on at Halloween Express in Cedar Rapids in 2006.

Posted on Sep 17, 2009 by David DeWitte . Alan Lucas, FyreSTORM A rural broadband stimulus program has a Cedar Rapids startup thinking really big.

Posted on Aug 13, 2009 by Admin . Steve Robins, 63, of Marion, was charged Wednesday with second-degree sexual abuse, according to a criminal complaint filed in Linn County District Court.

The mayor and city council in Robins are at odds again after the council voted 5-0 to give Snyder & Associates the contract to design the east portion of Main Street.

A 23-year veteran of the Linn County Sheriff's Office and 46-year-old son of an Iowa legislator died Friday night in a one-car accident near Robins.

Two teens are in the hospital after rolling a car. This happened just before 3:30 Thursday morning on County Home Road near Robins.

Jim Sattler, president of Jim Sattler Inc. Custom Homes, has given up his plan to build a manufactured home park along Council Street NE just south of Robins and north of the proposed Tower Terrace Road extension.

A Carter Lake police officer is recovering after officials say the police chief accidentally shot him at police headquarters.

Traffic in and near Robins is due for another summer-long snarl. Beginning this week, detour signs are to go up and construction is to start on intersection improvements at North Center Point and County Home roads.

Two Cedar Rapids residents were seriously injured after they were thrown from a motorcycle Saturday in Linn County, the Linn County sheriff's office said.

West High graduate Taylor Freeman qualified for the NCAA Track and Field Championships with a sixth-place finish in discus at the West Regional on Friday in Eugene, Ore., for Arizona.

Center Point, Hiawatha, Marion, Robins & Walford all approved a local option sales tax in an election held today.

In Linn County most cities voted yes for the local option sales tax in March but it didn't pass in Hiawatha, Center Point, Marion, Robins and Walford.

On Tuesday, parts of Linn County will vote again on a similar local option sales tax in Center Point, Hiawatha, Marion, Robins, and Walford.

Linn County Auditor Joel Miller announced on his blog this week that he is not running for mayor of Cedar Rapids in the election later this year.

Debris lays in a ditch on Monday as a covered truck travels along County Home Road to the Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency Landfill in rural Marion.