BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A partnership could be in the works that could result in some properties in Fort Madison getting a rehab. Fort Madison Mayor Brad Randolph and Fort Madison [Read More…]
PCC STAFF CENTERVILLE – Bloodhound freshman Dayton Davis had a season high 14 and junior Jayden Fedler poured in 18 as the Hounds got back to winning ways with a 61-52 win over Centerville on [Read More…]
PCC STAFF PONTIAC – Owen Kruse lost in a 9-5 decision in the championship match at 106 lbs and senior Sam Hayes suffered his first loss of the year in the title match at 195 [Read More…]
PCC STAFF MEDIAPOLIS – FMHS wrestlers took advantage of nine forfeits enroute to a 78-6 dual win over Mediapolis on Thursday night. Fifth-ranked Sam Hayes won again pinning Daniel Hightower at 1:39. Junior Danen Settles [Read More…]
PCC STAFF INDEPENDENCE – Fort Madison senior Sam Hayes rolled through a high-octane Cliff Keen Independence Invitational on Friday and Saturday in Independence. Hayes, rated 5th in the state at 195 in the most recent [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The FMHS boys basketball team dropped it’s home opener Tuesday night despite having three players in double figures. Ottumwa came to the HoundDome in non-conference action and downed the Bloodhounds [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Coming off a year where the Fort Madison girls varsity basketball squad won just one game, first year Head Coach Todd McGhghy said it’s back to the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Despite the loss of two first-team all-conference picks last year, the Fort Madison Bloodhounds boys basketball team may be in a better position to compete for a [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A project less than a year in the making became a testament Friday to about a dozen trade students at Fort Madison High School. The new Richmond [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FAIRFIELD – Holy Trinity’s Matt Hellige was the lone runner from Fort Madison to qualify Thursday for the state cross country meet at Lakeside Golf Course Oct. 27 in Fort [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Despite a lackluster season from both Keokuk and Fort Madison on the gridiron, the Hounds are highly motivated to keep the one trophy of the year in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Not only are they learning how to use new technology to build robots, but they’re learning the basics of marketing in the process. The Fort Madison Cyberhounds, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – It didn’t take long for Mt. Pleasant to set the tone Friday night in handing the Bloodhounds their sixth straight loss. The Panthers scored quick and often [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MEDIAPOLIS – It took 30 points to avoid a tiebreaker third set, but Holy Trinity Catholic was able to find that point Thursday night on a Taylor Boeding kill to [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DURANT – The Lady Hounds volleyball team worked a split in a four-match Durant Tournament on Saturday. The Hounds dumped Davenport West 21-13, 21-10 but then lost to Grinnell 14-21, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR WASHINGTON – Glimmers of what could have made this year a winning season, flashed like the lightning that forced three delays in a 32-7 Bloodhound loss Friday night on the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – At 2-4, the Hounds will be hard pressed to find a winning season in Head Coach Tony Shiffman’s second year. The pass-happy Bloodhounds who only have about [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MEDIAPOLIS – The FMHS Lady Bloodhounds lost Tuesday night at Mediapolis and are an even 3 and 3 in their last six volleyball matches after winning seven straight. The Hounds [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The best thing that can be said about Friday’s Bloodhound football game is that the Solon Spartans are on a bus headed out of town. It was [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Every game the Hounds have played this year has been a shut out. Twice the Hounds held their opponents scoreless and twice the tables were turned. Fort [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MT. PLEASANT – Holy Trinity Catholic junior runner Matt Hellige took first place in the small class 5K at Mt. Pleasant Tuesday evening. Hellige’s 18:05.62 was the best time of [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The beat goes on….and the beat goes on. The Holy Trinity Catholic volleyball team is marching to a steady tempo of wins, stacking up five more in [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR BURLINGTON – On Friday night at Bracewell Stadium the Hounds ran into too much Taven Harris, too much DJ Pugh, and too much purple and gray. The Burlington Grayhounds threw [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It’s gonna be a game of here’s what we do, see if you can stop us. The Fort Madison Bloodhounds will travel to Bracewell Stadium Friday to [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Despite what looks on paper to be an easy win for the FMHS volleyball team, the Hounds ran into several slumps in fighting off Keokuk at home [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR TIFFIN – As it was in 2017, the Fort Madison Bloodhounds took a 2-0 record on the road and found themselves overmatched trying to get a third win. FMHS went [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It was a two clipboard night for head coach Kent Bailey’s Bloodhound volleyball team. Bailey, who’s been known to toss a clipboard or two in his day, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FAIRFIELD – The Fort Madison girls volleyball team is on a five-match win streak taking four out of five contests on Saturday at the Quincy Tournament and then going to [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Hounds put on an offensive juggernaut against a broken down West Burlington-Notre Dame football team Friday night, but it might have been the defensive effort that [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – For the second year in a row, the Fort Madison Bloodhound football team is starting 1-0. And for the second year in a row, the Hounds opened with [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison High School girls volleyball team will be looking to fill some big holes left by departing seniors from last year’s squad. The Bloodhounds need [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Back-to-School Health Fair will take place on Saturday at the Fort Madison High School. Students and families who have registered in advance to receive backpacks can [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Donations are still being accepted for the second annual Kiwanis’ Back-To-School Health Fair scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 4th from 10 a.m. to noon at the Fort Madison Community High [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR GOOSE LAKE – Despite a six-run first inning in the final game of the three-game tourney, the Lady Hounds had things pretty well under control at the Goose Lake Tournament [Read More…]
FORT MADISON – The following is the 4th quarter honor roll as submitted by Fort Madison High School guidance office. Academic Distinction 3.75-4.00 GPA Seniors: Kammy Booten, Christopher Brown, McKenna Fehseke, Alyssa Gilpin, David Goebel, [Read More…]
Submitted article FORT MADISON – The Ft. Madison Rotary Club is proud to announce the recipients of its annual scholarship awards. Every year, the Ft.Madison Rotary Club awards three $1,000 scholarships to three senior students [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 – Senior Kamryn Bailey homered for the third time this year and Hounds put up 20 runs against Wilton Friday to snap out of a 5-of-6 losing stretch. The Hounds [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – According to a PowerSchool notification sent out via text moments ago, FMCSD will be dismissing at 1:00 PM tomorrow, Wednesday, May 30, 2018.
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Due to extreme temperatures forecasted, the Fort Madison Community School District will have an early dismissal tomorrow, Tuesday, May 29th at 1:00 PM, according to a PowerSchool announcement made this [Read More…]
Editor My name is Kim Fehseke and my daughter McKenna Fehseke was involved in the senior prank at Fort Madison High School Sunday, May 20th. In recent days there has been much miscommunication and speculation [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – More details have come to light regarding the vandalism that currently has approximately 20 seniors banned from walking the stage at the Fort Madison High School graduation [Read More…]
PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Lee County Democratic Party awarded a $1,000 scholarship to a Lee County senior Carlos Degadillo from Fort Madison High School. Degadillo had to write a 500-word essay from a selection [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – Senior Taylor Shannan put up four more goals on Friday as the Bloodhounds fell to Holy Trinity Catholic 5-4 at the Baxter Sports Complex. Dezire Kline had two assists [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – With personal records falling all over the place and medals being thrown around people’s necks, it’s been a pretty darned good day for Fort Madison at the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR DES MOINES – Fort Madison senior Leigh Johnson’s wearing a medal around the grounds at Drake Stadium with a big smile on her face. With a 37′ throw, which bested [Read More…]
BY PCC STAFF FAIRFIELD – Fort Madison’s top girls double tennis team breezed through the bracket at Fairfield Middle School Wednesday to advance to the girls state tennis meet on May 30th and 31st in [Read More…]
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