Twins featured at FMAAA in September
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – As fraternal twins Linda and Lois have…
Spotlight
Schilling taking a hike after 34 years with LCHD
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – After 34 years with the Lee County…
Saturday wraps up 71st Tri-State Rodeo
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Sometimes you had to look twice. The…
Auditions upcoming for OFP Christmas production
Submitted article FORT MADISON – If you have a creative spark, enjoy community theater or…
Wednesday’s Tri-State Rodeo CINCH Shootout action
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Here’s some action photos from Wednesday night’s CINCH Shootout…
Test Kitchen growth comes from programming
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Rolling over four years of helping local…
Rodeo kicks off with event for special needs folks
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A couple downpours and a soggy rodeo…
Arts groups add music to Bridging Arts weekend
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director Mark your calendars for a must-see and hear cultural arts…
Ambassadors welcome new FMCH health professionals
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Area Chamber of Commerce’s Ambassador Club…
Agents of Hope battle cancer on Sept. 14
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Superheros will be descending on Richmond Stadium…
Turbo Dog Wash nets $1,200 for K9 group
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Eric Freitag, owner of the Turbo Wash Car Wash…
FM Chamber holds morning for kids on riverfront
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The annual Fort Madison Chamber of Commerce’s Riverview Games…
FM, Keokuk groups bridging county art
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – The art industry like all else in…
Habitat to dedicate new home Thursday
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Another example of community cooperation has created…
Wolfe is FMAAA exhibitor for August
BY BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – Erika Wolfe, well-known silversmith from Keokuk, IA,…
Eighteen vie for All-Around Cowboy/Little Miss Rodeo
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The 2018 candidates for Little Miss Rodeo and All-Around…
Freitag to hold week-long K9 Fundraiser
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Fort Madison businessman Eric Freitag is putting…
Colt Ford “raps” up RiverFest 2018
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – He’ll never admit to being a country…
Big bands, boats thrill spectators
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The north banks of the Mississippi River…
RiverFest kicks off tonight
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – It all starts today. RiverFest 2018 kicks off today…
Colt Ford’s bringin’ the party with him
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Sunday’s wrap on RiverFest 2018 will bring…
Still time to get in on Dragon Boat racing
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – There’s a saying in the summer “Suns…
Hohls literally bring Harvestville farm to tables
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – In what is becoming a tradition of sorts…
Riverfest 2018 Schedule of Events
FORT MADISON – Riverfest 2018 kicks of Thursday, Aug. 2. Below is a full schedule…
Illner Greene turns life back to art
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Lori Illner Greene got preoccupied with a…
OFP youth’s “Homework Eats Dog” starts tonight
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Once a summer, the Old Fort Playhouse…
Donation puts vests on court security officers
BY PCC STAFF MONTROSE – The Lee County Sheriff’s courthouse security detail will soon be…
Campers go deep in art at FMAAA
BY BRIAN RIGGS FORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION FORT MADISON – Fort Madison Area Arts…
Smith wins 2018 Fair Queen
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – The Lee County Fair kicked off Wednesday with…
Kiddies come out for Charlie Korschgen Parade on 4th of July
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – For more than a hundred years – 106, to…
Sunday tour brings art, history, and culture together
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – A cooler, breezier Sunday afternoon turned into…
FMAAA’s Garden Tour set for Sunday
BY BRIAN RIGGS Fort Madison Area Artists Association FORT MADISON – Ft. Madison Area Arts…
Hy-Vee, Riverfest team up to help build press box
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Talk about getting more bang for your…
Lafrenz gets district Rotary award
FORT MADISON – District 6000 Governor Mike Ruby presented Fort Madison Rotarian Matt Lafrenz with…
Schiller still hoping to complete Nepal projects
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – Former Donnellson teacher, turned Nepalese missionary, Ernie Schiller…
Rotary Picnic and City Band this Sunday
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – This Sunday the Fort Madison Rotarians will hold their…
Girl scouts brave heat to spruce up PAW shelter
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Four members of a Fort Madison Girl…
Shutterbugs on display at FMAAA in June
By BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – The Summer at FMAAA gallery always is…
Top Hatters go ‘On Stage’ this weekend in Keokuk
BY AVA PEITZ PCC Holy Trinity Intern KEOKUK – Cicely Stevenson, a dancer at Top…
FMHS seniors off to find dream “home”
BY ASHLYN BUTLER PCC Iowa State Intern FORT MADISON – Ft. Madison school staff, district…
Velocity Dance team wins state competition
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Limitless dance competition team from the Velocity Dance…
FM Partners finds more FM partners in first Paint-A-Thon
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The inaugural effort to help beautify Fort…
Horan’s Cabaret hits 45 years as neighborhood pub
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Stories of goats running through the bar,…