City of Ames, IA

A project to repair sanitary sewers from 9th to 18th Streets along Grand Avenue will begin on the evening of Sunday, July 14. This work will require one lane closure on Grand Avenue in each direction.

The Ames Homebuilders Association will be dismantling the playground near the Walnut Shelter at Inis Grove Park beginning at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17. Inis Grove Park is located at Duff Avenue and 24th Street.

The public is encouraged to provide input to the City of Ames on its 2019-2023 five-year CDBG /HOME Consolidated and 2019-20 Annual Action Plans, which will outline the proposed activities, project locations, and proposed budgets being funded by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

Improvements to Hickory Drive from Westbrook Drive to Woodland Street, originally scheduled to begin June 24, have been postponed due to a delay on the power pole relocation. The project is now expected to begin Monday, July 1, weather permitting.

Mosquito fogging in City parks will begin the week of June 10, and continue until the end of September or when mosquito population thresholds are no longer exceeded.

Entries will soon be accepted for the City of Ames Water and Pollution Control Department’s annual public art contest and exhibition. Entries may be submitted beginning Monday, April 22. Submission deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23.