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…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR CORALVILLE – A 2009 Fort Madison High School graduate is seeking a state senate seat in Iowa’s 37th district which encompasses mostly Johnson and Cedar Counties. Eric Dirth, son of [Read More…]
Holy Trinity Catholic’s Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned prior to Friday night’s varsity basketball games. Coronation will be at 5:45 p.m. and the 2018 Court includes king candidates from left to right in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Bringing in two K-9 officers and equipping officers and patrol cars with the latest video technology would be enough for most sheriff’s departments to call it good [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The 2nd annual Veterans assembly at Fort Madison High School was held December 21, on the morning before the students and staff were released for winter break. Veterans from [Read More…]
FMAAA Board President Angela Sodey announced the winners of 2017 Annual Member Artist Exhibition. Best of Show with $200 stipend goes to Gin Lammert of Pulaski for “Just Keep Swimming”. Best Photograph went to Lawrence [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Two FMHS cheerleaders have, well…something to cheer about. Sophomore Chloe Hoenig and senior Mya White were both selected as All-Americans by Varsity Spirit at a summer camp [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – More and more details are being released about this year’s third year in the reboot of what is and was RiverFest in Fort Madison,. Nick Bauswell, the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The holiday spirit is alive and well for a Fort Madison man who’s been building a collecting miniatures for a Christmas village that runs about 60 square [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Inspired, again by a news broadcast of people helping people, two twin sisters from Fort Madison have taken to providing some warmth this holiday season. Samantha and [Read More…]
CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – About 80 Lee County economic and business representatives were introduced to a program aimed at knocking down hurdles that prop up generational poverty. Vern Reed, an at-risk counselor [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Old Fort Players would like to invite all area Thespians to audition for their February production of “Misconceptions” which is written by Michael Vukadinovich, on Dec. 10 at [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A local Fort Madison student took a passion for animals and turned it into a means to raise funds for the local Toys for Tots program. Abbygail [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – A couple of months ago an FMHS student collected a semi full of supplies for hurricane-ravaged areas of the country, a middle school student sold pet pillows for [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – To them…it’s a God thing. Fully retired Jim and Betty Posz travel about five months out of the year in their 40-foot Sundance RV, but their travels [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It’s not your typical holiday season community playhouse production. But that’s not what Old Fort Players director Kelly Shields wanted when she agreed to direct the program. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – With the 2017 RiverFest barely in the rearview mirror, organizers Charles and Jenny Craft are already hard at work building the third, what they say will be [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – There’s a certain palpable energy that’s starting to take hold in Fort Madison. It may seem slow to emerge with some businesses opening and some closing and [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – An international program aimed at solving generational poverty may be coming to Lee County. The project, called Bridges Out of Poverty, looks at the specific issues facing [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – With the God’s Portion just over and the fall sports season drawing to a close, HTC drama department is gearing up for their Annual Fall Dinner Theater. The cast [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – You may have seen someone quietly, but feverishly, working behind the glass and a locked door at 731 Avenue G in the past couple years. On Saturday, [Read More…]
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