BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – It all starts today. RiverFest 2018 kicks off today in Riverview Park on the Mississippi Riverfront in beautiful, historic downtown Fort Madison at 4 p.m. with a carnival, regional [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Sunday’s wrap on RiverFest 2018 will bring one of country music’s hottest contemporary acts. Colt Ford is bringing a special mix of country to the Pen City [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – There’s a saying in the summer “Suns out – Guns out”, which means show off your biceps. Well RiverFest 2018 has a chance to show the guns [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – In what is becoming a tradition of sorts in North Lee County, about 70 diners experienced what is really meant by Farm to Table on Saturday night at [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – Riverfest 2018 kicks of Thursday, Aug. 2. Below is a full schedule of events slated for this year. For tickets or additional information on this year’s event, visit the Riverfest website at [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Lori Illner Greene got preoccupied with a new concept in physics called “string-theory”, a controversial model of subatomic composition, and it spilled all over her canvas. String [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Once a summer, the Old Fort Playhouse really turns into a playhouse as area youth take the stage. This year is sure to not disappoint as a [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MONTROSE – The Lee County Sheriff’s courthouse security detail will soon be able to wear bulletproof vests thanks to a very timely donation from a local charity. Sheriff’ Stacy Weber said Tuesday [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS FORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION FORT MADISON – Fort Madison Area Arts Association always organizes a challenging annual art camp in July that concentrates on guest instructors teaching how to utilize raw [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – The Lee County Fair kicked off Wednesday with the traditional crowning of the Fair Royal Court and 17-year-old Summer Smith is wearing the top crown. Smith is the [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – For more than a hundred years – 106, to be exact – the town of Fort Madison has ushered in the Fourth of July with the Charlie Korschgen Kiddie [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – A cooler, breezier Sunday afternoon turned into the perfect setting for a tour around area homes where art and gardening came together. The Fort Madison Area Artists [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS Fort Madison Area Artists Association FORT MADISON – Ft. Madison Area Arts Association unveils another great chapter to an ongoing novel of garden adventures. Six amazing locations with three in Ft. Madison [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Talk about getting more bang for your buck. The Fort Madison High School athletic department has set up an arrangement, with a couple assists from Fort Madison [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – District 6000 Governor Mike Ruby presented Fort Madison Rotarian Matt Lafrenz with the Paul E. Hellwege Guardian of Integrity Award. The award is named after the late Past District Governor Paul E. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – Former Donnellson teacher, turned Nepalese missionary, Ernie Schiller is back in Nepal and is hoping to get a message back home that he’s close to funding the repairs [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – This Sunday the Fort Madison Rotarians will hold their annual picnic in Central Park. The event is an annual fundraiser that helps support the City Band Summer Concert Series [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Four members of a Fort Madison Girl Scout troop and some leaders partnered with Sherwin Williams on Saturday and spruced up the front to the PAW no-kill [Read More…]
By BRIAN RIGGS FMAAA Director FORT MADISON – The Summer at FMAAA gallery always is ushered in with a flash with the Annual Photography Exhibition. This year features Martha Milligan and Ann Larsen of Montrose, [Read More…]
BY AVA PEITZ PCC Holy Trinity Intern KEOKUK – Cicely Stevenson, a dancer at Top Hatter Dance Studio in Fort Madison, Iowa, believes that every person, young and old, should attend Top Hatter’s recital this [Read More…]
BY ASHLYN BUTLER PCC Iowa State Intern FORT MADISON – Ft. Madison school staff, district board members, and friends and family filled the bleachers of the Fort Madison High School gym Saturday as 127 students [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Limitless dance competition team from the Velocity Dance and Tumbling studio in Ft Madison competed this weekend in their second ever dance competition in Des Moines – The [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The inaugural effort to help beautify Fort Madison’s neighborhoods got off to a rocky start, but the city now has two freshly painted and landscaped homes as [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Stories of goats running through the bar, drop ceilings falling, and Sharon Horan taking a tumble off a ladder speckle the colorful past 45 years of Horan’s [Read More…]
BY AVA PEITZ HTC Intern FORT MADISON – As Dorothy would say, “There’s no place like home.” After speaking with Sabrina Fullhart, who played Dorothy in Holy Trinity Catholic’s production of the Wizard of Oz, [Read More…]
Dear Editor, On Tuesday, April 17th Potowonok Circle of King’s Daughters is teaming up with the Eagle’s Club for a taco and enchilada supper. The proceeds from our portion of the supper will go towards [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Old Fort Players have announced the cast for their upcoming spring production of “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” written by Fredrick Knott. Dial M for Murder is a melodrama [Read More…]
BY AVA PEITZ PCC Holy Trinity Catholic Intern FORT MADISON – The local Soroptimists brought fiction to reality for many youth Saturday as local princesses gathered at Fort Madison Comfort Inn & Suites for the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Richardson Elementary School opened its doors and its heart Thursday night to showcase how the district works with students struggling with autism. The district’s two autism teachers [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It started when about seven guys meeting at the Lincoln Hotel started a charter effort to help “serve the children of the world”. Only one person from [Read More…]
ANIAH ROSS PCC FMHS INTERN FORT MADISON – This last weekend was an epic and emotional performance for the Fort Madison High School Music Department. Dinner Theater is held near the end of every school [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – This fall Harvestville Farms in Donnellson will bring a new twist to “…amber waves of grain”. Adam, Julie, and Kathy Hohl, owners of the fifth generation farm, were [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – We’re not supposed to outlive our children. It’s an unwritten rule we expect as parents and we don’t prepare for the flip of life when a child [Read More…]
BY BRIAN RIGGS Fort Madison Area Arts Association FORT MADISON – Expressions Art Auction is the annual fundraiser for the Ft. Madison Area Arts Association this Saturday at Comfort Inn & Suites in Ft. Madison. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – He moved to Fort Madison with his family when he was just 13 years old and went to work falling in the love with the community. Now, [Read More…]
BY AVA PEITZ PCC HTC INTERN FORT MADISON – Follow the Yellow Brick Road on down to the Shottenkirk Gymnasium next weekend to see Holy Trinity Catholic High School’s musical production of The Wizard of [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – RiverFest fans that packed South Kinnick on Saturday night had to play guessing-games with Riverfest co-organizer Charles Craft on Saturday night to find out who would be [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG Sitting at a table Friday night at the Elliott Test Kitchen eating some of Kumar’s fresh-smooshed guacamole with chips, some hors d’oeuvre meatballs, and finger sandwiches with about 60 members of the [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Elks Club will be hosting a Comedy Night Friday at the Elks Lodge featuring two national comedy acts. Jamie Fritz will be the opening act, followed [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Old Fort Players will be holding auditions on March 14 and 15 for their spring play entitled “Dial M for Murder” written by Fredrick Knott. The cast [Read More…]
Submitted article FORT MADISON – Old Fort Players and Scott’s Company are proud to announce the cast of the Old Fort Players upcoming February production. Misconception’s is a two-act play written by Michael Vukadinovich and [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It was a room of red and blue Wednesday as the Fort Madison Elks Lodge put on a full spaghetti dinner for members of the Fort Madison [Read More…]
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