NICE DAY...SUNNY AND IN 60'S.
WE GOT 3/10 OF AN INCH OF RAIN YESTERDAY MORNING.
REST OF WEEK SHOULD BE PRETTY NICE ALSO.

ON THIS DAY IN 1939, IN A BIG WHITE HOUSE UP ON A HILL OVERLOOKING HORICON, WISCONSIN, MY MOM (CORA) GAVE BIRTH (RIGHT THERE AT HOME) TO A FUTURE RADIO ANNOUNCER, WHILE DAD (BEN) NERVOUSLY SAT IN NEXT ROOM WONDERING WHAT HIS FIRST OF 3 CHILDREN WOULD BE. SEEMS LIKE ONLY YESTERDAY. YUP...67 TODAY.
CAME DOWN HERE WHEN I WAS 19. PARENTS ARE GONE....HAVE A BROTHER AND FAMILY STILL IN HORICON AND A SINGLE BROTHER IN MILWAUKEE. WILL BE CELEBRATING WITH SOME FAMILY MEMBERS AT HAPPY JOE'S TONIGHT.

IN THE NEWS AGAIN, MARK WILLEY. THROUGH HIS NEW PUBLIC DEFENDER, MARK WILLEY HAS FILED A WRITTEN PLEA OF NOT GUILTY ON CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED MURDER, WILLFUL INJURY, AND BURGLARY IN THE FIRST DEGREE. NOW,HE WILL NOT BEING MAKING A COURT APPEARANCE IN PERSON TOMORROW.

A PUBLIC HEARING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED THIS MONTH TO TALK ABOUT REZONING PROPERTY AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF MAQUOKETA, FROM AGRICULTURAL TO INDUSTRIAL. RICH HAINSTOCK OWNS ABOUT 20 ACRES ALONG HIGHWAY J61 WHRE THE MAQUOKETA WELCOME SIGN SITS. HE'S ASKING THE SUPERVIORS TO CHANGE THE ZONING, SO HE CAN PUT A COMMERCIAL BILLBOARD ON THE PROPERTY. THAT REQUIRES THE PROPERTY TO BE ZONED INDUSTRIAL. HE SAID HE DIDN'T WANT A COMMERCIAL ZONING BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY. THE SUPERVIORS ARE RECEIVING SOME OBJECTIONS TO THIS AND SO A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE AT 7:30 P.M. TUESDAY, MAY 16TH.

A MAQUOKETA MAN HAS PLEADED GUILTY IN CLINTON COUNTY DISTRICT COURT TO TAMPERING WITH VEHICKLE ODOMETERS. DANIEL CLARK, 34, REPLACED ODOMETERS IN THREE VEHICLES IN MAY, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2005 TO REFLECT LOWER MILEAGE. HE APPARENTLY SOLD CARS FOR TWO MAQUOKETA USED VEHHICLE DEALERSHIPS AND THE CLINTON COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SAID NEITHER OF THOSE DEALERSHIPS WAS IMPLICATED IN THE CASE AGAINST CLARK.

HELOYCE SAGERS, 85, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED TUESDAY. HER OBITUARY IS AT www.carsonandson.com

VERNA RISINGER, 79, OF MAQUOKETA, DIED WEDNESDAY AND HER OBITUARY IS AT www.laheys.com

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY AGAIN.

DENNIS VOY