The Hawk Eye
When the New York Times came to Burlington, they heard a story of a rundown town in despair but one of the men interviewed in the story said if he had gotten to show Burlington to The New York Times, he would have told a very different story.
Terry Davis said article author Trip Gabriel did not want to go with him on a tour of Burlington,so Davis agreed to take The Hawk Eye on the tour of Burlington he had intended to give.
“I want to show you how I see Burlington and the people,” he told The Hawk Eye as he began his driving tour of Burlington.
The Hawk Eye
WEST BURLINGTON The view in West Burlington will change when a weathered old water tank comes down, replaced by a new, elevated water tower expected to be completed in June 2022.
Boomerang Corp., of Anamosa, has started work on the nearly $4.9 million tower project at the West Burlington Public Works Department, 2000 W. Mount Pleasant St.
The new tower will replace the old faded blue, rust-splattered, ground storage tank at 123 S. Gear Ave., across from Deery Brothers, that the city stopped using a few months ago.
The water tower project includes a 500,000-gallon composite-style water tower, booster station, about 620 square yards of paving, 4,470 linear feet of water main, 910 linear feet of storm sewer, and 590 linear feet of sanitary force main, according to information City Clerk Kelly Fry provided.
Southeastern Community College to add Loop Road to West Burlington campus
WEST BURLINGTON Southeastern Community College will have an additional roadway on its West Burlington campus before summer.
As its name suggests, Residence Hall New Loop Road will loop around the Blackhawk Towers residence hall to connect the roadway off of the West Agency Street campus entrance to the parking lot and roadway located on the west side of the residence hall.
Loop Road will not provide the campus with an additional exit or entryway, but it will allow drivers to travel to either the 406th Road or Gear Avenue exits from Woodcamp Drive, which typically sees heavier traffic during the noon hour.