LOTS OF SNOW YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT IN IOWA, BUT MOST TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF US. WE GOT ABOUT 2 INCHES AND WITH A HIGH OF 41 TODAY, IT IS ALL GONE.

LEIGHTON HEPKER BROADCAST THE NORTHEAST OF GOOSE LAKE TOURNAMENT GAME AT DES MOINES LAST NIGHT AND LEFT TO COME BACK TO MAQUOKETA AFTER THE GAME, ABOUT 10 AND DIDN'T GET HOME UNTIL AFTER 4 THIS MORNING. ROADS WERE BAD. NORTHEAST LOST THE GAME.

JEANNETTE MESSERLI OF CLINTON TELLS ME THAT THE CLASS OF 1954 OF MAQUOKETA HIGH SCHOOL WILL HAVE ITS 50TH YEAR REUNION ON THE WEEKEND OF JULY 17TH, 2004. IT WILL START FRIDAY NIGHT, THE 16TH, WITH A PARTY AT THE COMFORT INN MOTEL AND THE CLASSES OF 53 AND 55 ARE ALSO INVITED THAT NIGHT. SO..MAKE PLANS TO BE IN MAQUOKETA THAT WEEKEND AND SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN FOR A LONG TIME.
HER SON TOM, IS THE MAYOR OF MAQUOKETA. IF YOU NEED HER EMAIL ADDRESS. LET ME KNOW.

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN HAD TO BE EXTRICTED FROM HER VEHICLE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AFTER HER VAN RAN A STOP SIGN AT GROVE AND MAIN AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA, BY OWL FURNITURE. ARLENE ABBOTT SMITH, AGE 66, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND RELEASED. SHE PULLED OUT INTO THE INTERSECTION AND WAS STRUCK BROADSIDE BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY WESLEY JOHANNSEN, AGE 18, OF MAQUOKETA. SMITH WAS CHARGED AND DAMAGE TO BOTH VEHICLES CAME TO ABOUT $15,000.
THE ACCIDENT PROVES THAT IN-TOWN ACCIDENTS EVEN IN A SMALL CITY CAN BE QUITE SERIOUS.

CAROLINE KAMPAS OF CLINTON DIED SUNDAY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY SISTERS IN THE MAQUOKETA AREA....PAT WALLACE, AGNES HINZ AND MONICA IHRIG.

RYAN AND MELISSA JARGO OF CLINTON ARE PARENTS OF A BOY BORN AT OUR HOSPITAL LAST THURSDAY. GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE NAOMI IHRIG OF MAQUOKETA AND JOE AND EUNICE FIER OF MAQUOKETA.

COURT NEWS: DAVID STREETS, AGE 23, WAS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AFTER A FIGHT IN A DOWNTOWN ALLEY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

A CHAIN REACTION 3-CAR ACCIDENT LAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. DRIVERS OF THE CARS WERE LARRY GIBSON, 48....PAMELA SCHWARTZ, AGE 16, AND PATRICIA KEITAL, AGE 50.....ALL OF MAQUOKETA AREA. NO INJURIES IN THE HIGHWAY 61 ON-RAMP ACCIDENT AND NO CHARGES FILED.

CHICAGO POLICE HAVE ARRESTED THE HUSBAND OF THE SAVANNA, ILLINOIS WOMAN WHO WAS STABBED TO DEATH IN LATE FEBRUARY IN SAVANNA.
HER HUSBAND WAS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE STABBING OF HIS WIFE, WHO WAS BORN IN MAQUOKETA. SHE WAS 37. HE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO CARROLL COUNTY.

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES CHARGED 13 TEEN-AGERS IN A BEER PARTY NEAR ZWINGLE LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. AGES RANGED FROM 15 TO 18 AND SEVERAL WERE FROM MAQUOKETA.

THAT'S IT FOR NOW...I'M LATE FOR DINNER.

TAKE IT EASY.

DENNIS VOY