Andrew Wind

Waterloo

Local News Editor at The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Local news editor at The Courier (https://t.co/BSddvgiHzY).

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Hawkeye Community College spring enrollment grows more than 9%

2 weeks ago | wcfcourier.com | Andrew Wind

WATERLOO — Things are looking up this spring at Hawkeye Community College. Enrollment for spring semester is at 5,115, an increase of 434 students or 9.27% from a year ago. Nina Grant, vice president of student affairs, said it is the “first time that we were over 5,000 students” since 2020. She noted the student count that year took place just before COVID-19 hit Iowa.
After fall opening of new Cedar Falls High School, more work left on sports facilities

1 month ago | newspressnow.com | Andrew Wind

CEDAR FALLS — A transformed educational space opened in the fall at the new Cedar Falls High School. With 300,000 square feet, the building at 2701 W. 27th St. is designed to offer greater possibilities for students in academics, the arts and athletics than the aging school it replaced on Division Street. A stadium and other sports fields outside the school’s walls help ensure student athletic needs can be met on the 70-acre campus.
After fall opening of new Cedar Falls High School, more work left on sports facilities

1 month ago | wcfcourier.com | Andrew Wind

CEDAR FALLS — A transformed educational space opened in the fall at the new Cedar Falls High School. With 300,000 square feet, the building at 2701 W. 27th St. is designed to offer greater possibilities for students in academics, the arts and athletics than the aging school it replaced on Division Street. A stadium and other sports fields outside the school’s walls help ensure student athletic needs can be met on the 70-acre campus.
Cedar Falls council to hold second hearing Monday on urban revitalization area

1 month ago | newspressnow.com | Andrew Wind

CEDAR FALLS — The City Council will hold a second public hearing Monday on a plan to incentivize the construction of multi-residential buildings in an area along Cedar Heights Drive.
Cedar Falls council to hold second hearing Monday on urban revitalization area

1 month ago | wcfcourier.com | Andrew Wind

CEDAR FALLS — The City Council will hold a second public hearing Monday on a plan to incentivize the construction of multi-residential buildings in an area along Cedar Heights Drive.
Regents authorize construction of UNI basketball, volleyball practice facility

1 month ago | newspressnow.com | Andrew Wind

URBANDALE — The University of Northern Iowa received authorization Thursday from the Board of Regents to move forward with construction of a volleyball and basketball practice facility. “This is a 27,000-square-foot facility estimated at $14 million,” Michael Hager, UNI senior vice president for finance and operations, told the board’s properties and facilities committee during a meeting at the regents office.
Regents authorize construction of UNI basketball, volleyball practice facility

1 month ago | wcfcourier.com | Andrew Wind

URBANDALE — The University of Northern Iowa received authorization Thursday from the Board of Regents to move forward with construction of a volleyball and basketball practice facility. "This is a 27,000-square-foot facility estimated at $14 million," Michael Hager, UNI senior vice president for finance and operations, told the board's properties and facilities committee during a meeting at the regents office.
Hawkeye Community College students experience farming in Haiti through trip

1 month ago | wcfcourier.com | Andrew Wind

WATERLOO | Farming practices in Haiti lag far behind American agriculture. Without chemical fertilizers, farmers use sugar cane byproducts, compost and bat manure to enrich their soil. It's easier to collect the bat waste than to get manure from farm animals, which typically are not confined. Modern implements are not used very often to plant fields. They weed by hand and some farmers have been known to till the soil with a pick axe.
Hard-court agreement, $4 million grant for developer to be considered by Waterloo council

2 months ago | newspressnow.com | Andrew Wind

WATERLOO — A development agreement for a planned hard-court sports facility will come before the City Council Monday. The agreement with the Waterloo Development Corp. includes a grant of $4 million to the company, which will construct the $35 million building on the TechWorks Campus along Westfield Avenue. The council meets at 5:30 p.m. in City Hall.
Neighbors petition Cedar Falls council for another hearing on revitalization area

2 months ago | newspressnow.com | Andrew Wind

CEDAR FALLS — Homeowners whose neighborhood would be in an area where incentives are offered to construct multi-residential buildings have petitioned the City Council for a second public hearing on the proposal. Earlier this month, the council held the second of three readings on an ordinance for the multi-residential urban revitalization area near the city's eastern border. Since then, Huntington Ridge Neighborhood residents have submitted a petition signed by 39 people seeking another hearing.