BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Several efforts are underway to minimize the impact of vaping and e-cigarette usage in public and with underage users. On Thursday, the Fort Madison Police Department issued a [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – The Lee County Conservation Board agreed to send a letter of support for a project that could eventually bring islands and greater wildlife back to Pool 19 of the [Read More…]
DONNELLSON – The Lee County Republican Central Committee held its annual Christmas Carry-in Party Monday, December 2, at the Pilot Grove Community Center in Donnellson. Many friends and supporters enjoyed great dining of Pork Loin, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – With state health officials pulling inspections for tanning salons in Iowa, Lee County is looking at an ordinance to police operations themselves. Lee County Health Department Administrator Michele Ross [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – County building improvements totaling more than $650,000 could prompt officials to issue bonds to help pay for the work. After Tuesday’s regular Lee County Board of Supervisor’s meeting, Lee [Read More…]
LEE COUNTY – Congressman Dave Loebsack will have a member of his staff in Southeastern Iowa for open office hours. Jared Hershberger, Loebsack’s District Representative, will be at the following locations. Hershberger will be on [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – The state-mandated Lee County Compensation Board has recommended that Lee County elected officials and their deputies receive a 3% across the board raise for the next budget year. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Reimbursement deficiencies are forcing some logistical cuts, at a minimum, from services provided by Lee County Emergency Medical Services. Bill Young, executive director of Lee County EMS, told [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – In remembrance of Veteran’s Day and the 244th anniversary of the Marine Corp, Lt. Col. Jeff Reichman USMC-Res spoke to the Jean Espy Chapter of the Daughters of the [Read More…]
LEE COUNTY – The Lee County Narcotics Task Force reports the arrest of a Keokuk man on Felony drug charges. Tyler Padilla, 34, of Keokuk, Iowa was arrested on November 23rd, 2019 in the 900 [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – “And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God made a farmer.” The words were made famous by [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITORLEE COUNTY – In the late 1800s islands were as much a part of the Mississippi River ecosystem and economy as the water itself. Fort Madison’s Jim Noll thinks resurrecting those islands [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A recent inspection of county bridges has resulted in additional weight restrictions being placed on 15 county bridges. At Tuesday’s regular Lee County Board of Supervisor’s meeting, supervisors approved [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – At its 4th quarter meeting held last week The Community Foundation of North Lee County voted to change its name to The North Lee Community Foundation. This is only [Read More…]
Detour is a 56-mile run through three counties MOUNT PLEASANT – Local officials are concerned that a bridge closure on Hwy. 218 near Salem will send heavy traffic on secondary roads and bridges in Lee [Read More…]
LEE COUNTY – The Lee County Narcotics Task Force reports the arrest of a Fort Madison woman on Felony and Misdemeanor drug charges. Shaunna Lynn Ellingson, 25, of Fort Madison, Iowa was arrested on November [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – Hy-Vee Food Stores in Fort Madison and Keokuk are hosting a chili supper, free will offering, fundraiser for Lee County Crime Stoppers on Tuesday, November 19th. 4–7 P.M. The yearly event has [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A project to put new playgrounds in at Pollmiller Park in West Point, got a shot in the arm Tuesday night. The Lee County Conservation Board agreed to match [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A resolution is in front of Lee County Supervisors about the conditions of railroad crossings on 255th Street and J50 west of the sheriff’s office. The resolution, which [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Linda McCann will be speaking at three libraries in Lee County at the end of November about Prohibition in Eastern Iowa and Iowa’s WWII POW Camps. Linda has done [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – A plea from a rural Lee County woman Tuesday morning created a clearer picture for the supervisors that something needs to be done about wandering livestock. At the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Voters in Lee County will go to the polls Tuesday in a heavy field of candidates for area city and township elections, along with school board seats. For [Read More…]
A Letter to the Editor, As a member of the governing body of the Lee County Health Department, I want to express my gratitude to our Lee County Health Department for providing “30-Years of Hospice [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MONTROSE – The City of Montrose is helping to reorganize the Montrose Youth Activities. The Montrose Youth Activities Board will need positions for President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and one Alternate. In [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – Twenty-five year old Adam Golden McCain of Fort Madison will spend the rest of his life in prison. That was the order of District 8B Judge Mary Ann Brown [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – Prosecutors learned Wednesday that a verdict could be handed down as soon as Thursday afternoon in the case of a 25-year-old Fort Madison man charged with 1st-degree murder. Chief [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – Former Vice President Joe Biden told about 130 people at Small Grand Things in rural West Point Thursday it was time to get up. It was a phrase [Read More…]
LANCASTER, Mo — A football coach at Keokuk High School and his girlfriend are facing felony charges in the assault of a northeast Missouri woman. According to a report from KHQA out of Quincy and [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF WEST POINT – Former Vice-President Joe Biden, a 2020 candidate for president, will visit Lee County on Wednesday. The event will be held at Small Grand Things, 1903 West Point Road, West [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF DONNELLSON – The Three Rivers Conservation Foundation is hosting a Chicken Dinner Fundraiser on Sunday, November 3rd, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Charleston Board of Trade. The price of the [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF INDIANAPOLIS – The Lee County Economic Development Group won a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award for Lee County EDG Website Development in the 25,000 – 200,000 population category, from the International [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF MONTROSE – On Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Lee County Sheriffs Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public its 18th opportunity in nine [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – The 1st-degree murder trial of a 25-year-old Fort Madison man is in the hands of District 8B Chief Judge Mary Ann Brown. Prosecutors, who’ve charged Adam Golden McCain of [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – A compelling day of testimony opened the bench trial of 25-year old Adam McCain Wednesday in South Lee County Court. McCain, whose was last staying with his grandmother in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – The murder trial of a 25-year-old Fort Madison man is set to begin Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. in south Lee County Court. Adam Golden McCain, 25, is charged [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – In a regular update to the Lee County Board of Supervisors, county economic development officials told the board that today’s fast-moving economic development cycles mandate quick response and [Read More…]
MONTROSE – The Lee County Sheriff’s Office and the county Crimestoppers will once again be holding their annual No Tricks Just Treats event at the sheriff’s office in Montrose. The event will run from 5 [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – Denise Fraise, Lee County Auditor, announces that absentee ballots for the City/School Election to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 are now available in the Auditor’s Office. You [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – Friday was National Manufacturing Day and the Lee County Economic Development group became the county’s largest cookie jar and delivered 4,250 cookies to Lee County Manufacturers – one for [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – The county’s narcotics task force has moved it’s operations under the sheriff’s roof, and has named a new commander. Detective Chad Donaldson, a 17-year veteran with the Lee [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – An 8th District judge has ruled that a 25-year-old Fort Madison man wasn’t tricked into making incriminating statements to investigators after he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder [Read More…]
DES MOINES – Today, the Offices of Governor Kim Reynolds and the Chief Information Officer announced that the application window for the Empower Rural Iowa Broadband Grant Program has officially opened, making $5 million dollars [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – The Lee County Narcotics Task Force has arrested three individuals on unrelated felony and misdemeanor drug charges between September 7th and September 12th. Warren Bullard, 43, of Ft. Madison, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A new agreement was approved Monday that will provide for additional voting members to the regional mental health board to help with new state laws providing for children’s [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Lee County Economic Development Group’s President Dennis Fraise has been named one of the top 50 Economic Developers on the continent. Consultant Connect, a consulting agency that is [Read More…]
MONTROSE – Lee County Conservation has two exciting free programs set for Saturday, September 21st. The first, a paddle on the Mississippi, starts from Ortho Access Boat Ramp and will end at Heron Bend, where [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR KEOKUK – A Fort Madison man being held in connection with a February 2019 homicide in Keokuk said he was tricked by law enforcement officers into making incriminating statements after his [Read More…]
Two others arrested as part of investigation and searches BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR ARGYLE – A Burlington man has been arrested in connection with a chase and hunt that took place near Argyle Monday morning. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – Motorists in and through West Point will have to check their speedometers a bit more frequently after city officials voted to slow down traffic on Monday night. At [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – During the week of September 9, 2019, the United Way of the Great River Region will kick off the Fall 2019 campaign with a goal of raising $200,000 to [Read More…]
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