City Hall Parking Closes In Stages

If you pay your Ankeny utility bill in person — or just swing by City Hall this summer — your routine changes today. Starting this morning, the City Hall and Hawkeye Park parking lots begin closing in four rolling stages for concrete repairs that stretch into mid-July, and the bill-payment drop box goes walk-up only while crews pour. Let's roll. 🚲

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The lots around City Hall (410 W First St) and neighboring Hawkeye Park are getting torn up and repoured, and the city is doing it in four phases so the building never fully loses access. Here's the order, weather permitting:

Translation: if you do business at City Hall in person, follow the posted signs and pad a few extra minutes for parking through mid-July. Hawkeye Park — where the tennis courts are already fenced off for a rebuild — takes another hit on the 6th.

📍 Source: City of Ankeny

Ankeny Centennial softball didn't just keep winning. On Monday the Jaguars tied the all-time Iowa single-season home-run record (61) when Mady Ott launched a sixth-inning three-run shot to rally past No. 6 Southeast Polk, 5-3. One more long ball breaks it outright — and the next chance comes tonight at 5 p.m. at Ankeny High in the crosstown regular-season finale. A record on the line, against the rival across town. Go watch.

📍 Source: Ankeny Fanatic

Mark the calendar: Ankeny Chamber SummerFest returns July 10–12 at The District at Prairie Trail (1500 SW Main St), with the carnival opening the evening of Thursday, July 9. This year's theme is a curveball — "Jingle in July," a full Christmas-in-summer winter wonderland of lights, snowmen and candy canes in 90-degree heat. Polk County has signed on as a platinum sponsor for 2026. Parking and a shuttle run from the DMACC campus. We'll have the full schedule closer to the weekend it lands.

📍 Source: Ankeny Chamber SummerFest

One note as the yard browns: the Stage 3 nitrate lawn-watering ban is still in effect, so the sprinklers stay off into the weekend.

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Bank the easy weather and pad your City Hall trips: parking there closes in stages through mid-July, and the utility drop box is walk-up only. Meanwhile, a state softball record could fall across town tonight.

Thursday: the weekend's live-music-and-food-truck wave starts early — Beats & Eats, NASH Nights, and Sips & Songs all hit in 48 hours — and we'll have whether Centennial broke the record.

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