Year: 2017

The Keokuk School District looks like it may be losing another administrator following the 2016-17 school year. The district has seen principals at both the middle school and high school leave in the last 3 years and earlier this spring it was announced that vocal music director Nick McGraw would be going back to school in Nebraska after the school year. Now it has been made known that district superintendent […]

This past Monday a delegation of the willing from the city of Keokuk travelled north to Davenport, Iowa to look at a potential new attraction for the city. That’s the term city administrator Aaron Burnett used to describe the group that visited the Rhythm City Barge to investigate whether the feasibility of bringing the barge to Keokuk. John Helenthal brought a background in plumbing to look at the structural and […]

Wednesday morning citizens of Keokuk welcomed a representative of the company that is building the Senior Lofts at 9th and main to the Coffee and Conversation meeting. Pete Schwiegeraht, is a project manager for Ohio-based development company Miller-Valentine and he was excited to give an update on the progress made at the senior living building. Pete talked about the specifics of the Senior Lofts which will contain 45 1 and […]

Local residents will have an opportunity over the weekend to get a sneak peek at the work that has been completed at the Keokuk union deport.  Saturday morning, the Keokuk Union Depot Committee will be holding an open house at the depot complete with a variety of authentic memorabilia from the heyday of the riverfront landmark. The memorabilia will be placed in display cases for the open house and community […]