The Iowa City Senior Center continues to support wellness, community engagement, social connections, and lifelong learning for the diverse and growing older adult population with an expanding lineup of remote programming. The Center’s building remains closed due to COVID-19, but older adults are invited to participate in virtual activities, classes and events, both online and via phone this fall.

Members of The Center will soon receive a printed October calendar in their mailboxes, and the digital program calendar can be viewed at icgov.org/...

Members of the Iowa City City Council will hold a Listening Post on community policing at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, at Chauncey Swan Park, 405 E. Washington St.

City Council members Susan Mims, Pauline Taylor, and John Thomas will be in attendance.

The listening post will focus on community policing and how police interact with people experiencing homelessness. Service providers from Shelter House and Guidelink will be in attendance.

Community Policing is a philosophy that seeks to address the root causes...

The African American Museum of Iowa will give a presentation on Black history in Iowa at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 via Zoom.

The presentation will explore how Black history has helped shape Iowa's history. Entitled "Endless Possibilities: Iowa's African American History," those who take part will learn about Iowa being the first state in the U.S. to officially integrate its public schools in 1868, just three years after the Civil War ended. Surprised? This and so much more is part of Iowa’s wealth of African American history. From York, the first African American in Iowa and...

A 17-year-old male has been referred to the Johnson County Juvenile Court on the following charges related to this incident:

The investigation of the incident has determined that the adult female victim was accidentally shot with a handgun that was in the possession of the juvenile male charged with the above offenses. The victim of the shooting suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the single gunshot. The investigation into this incident has been concluded.

Issued: 09/20/2020...