Elijah Decious

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Elijah Decious

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. HIAWATHA — As organizers of the Cedar Valley Working Families potluck discussed their vision for a blossoming new social group, the room’s attention turned to a house of cards collapsing on the table next to them. One of the group’s first exercises at its inaugural January meeting — building playing card towers as players built community — had concluded.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Elijah Decious

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — A treat from the Land of the Rising Sun has landed in Cedar Rapids. Munchi Mochi, a new doughnut shop near Kirkwood Community College in southwest Cedar Rapids, opened in March at the helm of a student and new entrepreneur. The shop’s mochi doughnuts, a rice flour-based alternative to the traditional doughnut, are the first in Cedar Rapids and among the first in the Corridor.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Elijah Decious

NutriSport & Smoothie's second location at Old Capitol Town Center in Iowa City, 201 S. Clinton St., will open in late April 2025. (NutriSport & Smoothie) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — NutriSport & Smoothie is expanding soon to Iowa City. The Marion smoothie shop and supplement store on Blairs Ferry Road will soon have a second location at 201 S. Clinton St., next to Raising Cane’s at the Old Capitol Town Center.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Elijah Decious

Vendors lined 4th Avenue SE and 5th Street SE during the Downtown Farmers Market in Cedar Rapids on June 4, 2016. The Cedar Rapids Downtown Farmers Market returns in 2025 for its 20th year, including a celebratory feast by Cobble Hill chefs in July. (The Gazette) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — After 20 years of farmers markets, a celebratory feast awaits this summer in downtown Cedar Rapids.

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Elijah Decious

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In early 1940s Amsterdam, most Jews didn’t know much about the internment and concentration camps they were being sent to. They didn’t know much about names like Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen and Sobibor.