Cresco
CRESCO - It was not a great way to start a Monday!
The Cresco, Lime Springs and Protivin Fire Departments, area EMT personnel, Howard County Sheriff’s Dept. and Cresco Police Dept. all responded to a fire at Hawkeye Sanitation, located on Airport Road on the west edge of Cresco at approximately 10...
CRESCO - The Cresco Fire Dept., Cresco Police, Howard County Sheriff’s Dept. and Iowa State Police were all called in on Monday, Aug. 7 as an unstable individual was on top of a rooftop of a downtown Cresco building, located at 219 North Elm Street.
At approximately 2:40 p.m. officials took the...
CRESCO - Downtown Cresco area businesses are getting ready for long-awaited construction to start on creating a new look on Elm Street’s business district.
The project design will feature:
• All existing sidewalks along North Elm Street from 1st Ave. to 3rd Ave. will be removed and replaced.
•...
CRESCO - A two-in-one fun night is being held just outside the Cresco Theatre.
Everyone is invited to a game and family movie night, sponsored by Cresco Police Department.
The fun starts at 6:30 p.m., when children and adults can play some lawn games and hang out with local police officers. There...
CRESCO --Several area fire departments were called to the future Good Times Grill restaurant building in downtown Cresco Thursday, Aug. 18 around 8 p.m. More information will be available as it is released.
Cresco - The City Council approved tourism grants to local organizations for the first quarter at the April 1 meeting.
All the recipients were given funds for their projects, which either bring visitors to Cresco or help out the Cresco community.
They received the amounts they asked for. The...
Cresco - The City Council has been tackling some run-down properties in Cresco over the past few years. The largest acquisition is the nearly full city block south of Reicks Monuments on 3rd St. West, the former bowling alley, which had mostly trailers on it.
Most recently, a house was torn down on...
Cresco - Cresco City Council members approved the fourth quarter Travel & Tourism grants at their first meeting of the year on Jan. 7.
FIT Running Club’s St. Patrick’s Day Brew & Stew requested $1,500 for advertising, which the committee recommended to council. The total cost of the project...
CRESCO - Public Works Director Rod Freidhof told council members the 2nd St. project should be done in 3-4 work days, as of the Oct. 1 meeting. But it was unsure how the weather would cooperate with finishing up the 10-inch rock base.
The plan is to get it rocked and graded and let it sit over the...
CRESCO - Have you been seeing pink dots in strange places recently? It isn’t your imagination – they’re all around town!
The City of Cresco hired Midland GIS Solutions, LLC, to enter all of the city’s water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure into a GIS database. First, city employees marked...
