Memorial Day weekend marked one of the first big holidays for the arts in Keokuk. However, at the end of last week there was an air of anxiety hanging over many of the festivities organizers and it came at the hands of Mother Nature. Forecasts for the weekend called for high percentage chances of rain throughout but fortunately Memorial Day weekend featured some of the nicest weather of 2017. Festivities […]
Emergency crews from Iowa and Illinois responded to the report of a capsized boat Monday night on the Mississippi River. The Keokuk Fire Department, Keokuk Emergency Volunteer Corps, Warsaw Fire Department were called by a witness to a sinking boat south of the dam between Keokuk and Warsaw. According to KEVC Assistant Chief Charlie Biddenstadt, the search was suspended around 11PM volunteers found no debris or signs of a capsized […]
A Fort Madison man died as the result of injuries sustained in a single vehicle crash Monday afternoon. 33 year old Hoyt Grossman was travelling on eastbound J48 near Sheaffer Memorial Golf Course when he drove off the right side of the road and over-corrected. Grossman’s truck than hit a culvert and landed on its roof. The preliminary report states that Grossman was not wearing his seat-belt at the time […]
Simple misdemeanor charges were dropped against five more defendants involved in protests at the Dakota Access Pipeline last fall. The five protestors were women from the Iowa City area that were arrested for minor trespassing on the September 17th or October 1st of 2016. County Attorney Clinton Boddicker offered each of the defendants a plea deal in March but the 5 refused the deal and attempted to have their cases […]
Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Illinois has a brand new residence hall that is set to open before classes begin again this fall. Construction began last month on the Carolyn L and Robert W Brown residence hall which came with a price tag of 3 million dollars. The structure will contain suite style apartments as well as an educational wing with four classrooms. Culver-Stockton VP of Advancement Bill Sheehan stated that […]
Keokuk High School students celebrated the final day of the 2016-17 school year Wednesday. Festivities at the high school included water balloon, an outdoor slip and slide, and a performance by a band made up of high school students. Principal Adam Magliari’s smile beamed from ear to ear Wednesday afternoon as he described the day he enjoyed with his students. Magliari felt that his first year as head administrator at […]
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 […]
