Central Lee officials exhale as ribbon cut on $13M upgrade
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – Central Lee School board president Mark Hulsebus may have…
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City moves forward with traffic changes
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison City Council moved forward with…
Police identify victim of Tuesday stabbing
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Authorities have identified the man killed in a…
Suspect sought in Tuesday murder
Male in mid-20s was stabbed to death in downtown apartment building BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR…
Tactical team executes warrant on FM home
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Members of area law enforcement shut down part…
FM board says proposed career center needs more work
Board members disappointed in budget numbers and programs being proposed BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT…
Veteran takes over newest Mohrfeld offering
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – An area veteran has a new home thanks…
P.O.R.T. trail gets $1.26 million more from GRHS-FMCH foundation
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST BURLINGTON – The GRHS-FMCH Community Health Foundation has donated $1.26 million…
Boyer, Norris tapped for Mid-America Port Authority
BY PCC STAFF QUINCY – Two area economic development officials have been named to the…
Reynolds doubles down on rural broadband funding
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DES MOINES – On Monday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced $200…
Joint Exploration Center budget gets cool marks from Central Lee board
Fort Madison board to discuss at Monday’s meeting BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – The…
Iowans to see SNAP benefit increase
DES MOINES – Iowans receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) should be…
No cause yet on Thursday night house fire
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Fort Madison firefighters battled a house fire in…
Hospitalist program begins at SEIRMC-Fort Madison campus
WEST BURLINGTON – Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center’s Hospitalist Program expanded services to its Fort Madison…
Iowa DOC C.E.R.T. teams drill at old ISP
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – State officials were happy to trek to the…
Pipeline group to start land negotiations
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – Now that the mandated public information meeting is…
Judge Brown announces retirement at end of year
District 8B commission to conduct replacement interviews Nov. 8 BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DES MOINES…
Anhydrous pipeline meeting Tuesday night
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – A public information meeting about the anhydrous ammonia…
Schools issue warnings on TikTok licks
New viral challenges focus on “slapping” teachers BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Recent…
Groups have four weeks left to apply for ARPA funds
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – The panel reviewing applications for funding from the…
City to consider firm to design new buildings
Council looking at constructing new public works and fire department buildings BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR…
Wenke dots Holtkamp farmstead with patriotic ag bales
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Anyone heading west on the Charleston blacktop right off…
Sheriff looking for Keokuk man after sex offender checks
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – As a result of a sex offender compliance check…
Park board gives support to pickleball plans for Victory Park
FM Pickleball Association wants to raise funds to replace lighted tennis courts with six pickleball…
Sonny’s bucks trends for small town groceries
Merschbrocks closing in on a decade operating the West Point grocery BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR…
Barnes, ‘Justice’ place 13th nationally
BY PCC STAFF CAROLINA BEACH – ISP K9 Sgt. Mike Barnes and his K9 partner…
FM home hit with gunfire Sunday night
FORT MADISON – A home in the 1400 block of Avenue I, just south of…
County to pursue reimbursements for ambulance service
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – According to a Lee County Supervisor, county-owned Lee…
FMAAA announces Art-In-Central-Park winners
BY LORI ILLNER GREENEFort Madison Area Arts Association FORT MADISON – Fort Madison Area Arts…
Fiesta committee turns eyes toward Cinco De Mayo
Committee thanks sponsors and vendors for making 100th Fiesta one to remember BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC…
Lee County releases candidates for Nov. 2 election
BY PCC STAFF LEE COUNTY – Although there are many seats up for election in…
City takes more steps to improve traffic flow on 15th Street
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Permanently pulling stop signs from 15th Street south…
FMCSD launches new mobile friendly website
BY PCC STAFF FORT MADISON – The Fort Madison Community School district is thrilled to…
Records show remains were missing WP man
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR WEST POINT – Medical records of a missing West Point man…
United Way grant window now open
Grant request forms must be received no later than Oct. 18 LEE COUNTY – The…
City unveils plans for next phase of Bus. 61 rehab
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Drawings were unrolled and laid out on tables…
Lee County broadband project awarded funding
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – A $5.5 million expansion of broadband fiber optics…
Marching Classic returns this Saturday
Richmond Stadium to host 17th Annual Fort Madison classic starting at noon BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC…
Group wants to turn Victory Park tennis courts to pickleball
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A move is underway to convert the tennis…
Federal judge blocks state’s ban on school masking
Children make up 38% off all new positive cases in county in past seven days…
County to add grant writer position
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – The infusion of federal funds from the American…
Alumni, community come up big for new FMHS courtyard
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – It’s tucked into a open-air space between two…
New Quick Visit medical facility in the works for FM
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A rezoning request was approved for a Quick…
Special kids get own day to kick off Rodeo Week
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The hard work for the year is over…
Central Lee close to wrapping up $13M facilities upgrade
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR DONNELLSON – You can now officially get lost walking through the…
HTC benefits from Spanish Visiting Teacher program
Barcelona’s Eva Piquer lands at HTC in program that brings Spanish teachers to America BY…
CDC numbers have Lee County at 25% 7-day positivity rate
LCHD official says she’s “very worried” about the health of the community BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC…
County auditor says new election laws amount to voter suppression
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – New laws passed by the Iowa Legislator have…
Holtkamp, McCrabb added to LCEDG board
MONTROSE – The Lee County Economic Development Group has announced that Pat McCrabb and Bob…
Church group takes on FM downtown alley
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – A group of volunteers from Harmony Bible Church…