IT IS THE LAST WEEK OF FALL. YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IT.
COLD .. COLD LAST NIGHT AND TODAY. WE GOT DOWN TO ZERO EARLY THIS MORNING AFTER A HIGH OF 55 YESTERDAY. TONIGHT, DOWN TO 4 BELOW AND SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW
IS FORECAST FOR TOMORROW.

BAD FIRE IN DOWNTOWN BELLEVUE OVERNIGHT. SEVEN FIRE DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING MAQUOKETA, HAD IT OUT BY 5 THIS MORNING. A DOWNTOWN INSURANCE OFFICE ON NORTH 2ND STREET AND FOUR APARTMENTS IN THE TWO FLOORS ABOVE. ONE PERSON DIED IN AN APARTMENT AND THE NAME HAS NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED YET. NO WORD SO FAR ON CAUSE OF FIRE OR WHERE IT STARTED. DAMAGE ESTIMATE, $400,000.

TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY FOR THE FIRST WARD IN MAQUOKETA, TO FILL THE FIRST WARD COUNCIL SEAT. POLLS OPEN FROM NOON UNTIL 8 P.M. FIVE CANDIDATES.
WHOMEVER WINS WILL TAKE OFFICE IMMEDIATELY AND WILL SERVE UNTIL JANUARY 2012.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.

CASSANDRA STREETS AND ADAM DUWA OF MAQUOKETA ARE PARENTS OF A GIRL BORN WEDENSDAY AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL. NO RELATIVES LIVE IN MAQUOKETA.

AND, SAVANNAH HADDOCK OF MAQUOKETA IS THE MOTHER OF A BOY BORN THURSDAY MORNING AT THE MAQUOKETA HOSPITAL. MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER IS CHRISTI MARKLE OF MAQUOKETA.

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