Wednesday, November 03, 2021

WEDNESDAY REPORT

 

JANUARY 1, 2022, MAQUOKETA WILL HAVE A NEW MAYOR....TOM MESSERLI

ABOVE.    LAST NIGHT HE DEFEATED COUNCILMAN KEVIN KUHLMAN, 

446 VOTES TO 289.

HE HAS WORKED FOR KMAQ NEARLY 40 YEARS.,,,FIRST AS AN ANNOUNCER

AND THEN PART TIME CHIEF ENGINEER THE LAST 25 YEARS OR SO. 

FULL TIME HE WORKS AS A DISPATCHER AT THE POLICE/SHERIFF COMMUNICATIONS

CENTER.    ALSO DOES ENGINEERING FOR SEVERAL OTHER RADIO STATIONS.

AND..IS MAQUOKETA'S LOCKSMITH.    HE WILLL BE 61 TOMORROW.

HE IS DIVORCED AND HIS LONGTIME FRIEND IS RETIRED KMAQ NEWS DIRECTOR

SHERI MELVOLD AND HE HAS A DAUGHTER IN TEXAS,  A SISTER IN BELLEVUE

AND HIS MOTHER LIVES IN CLINTON.


ALSO LAST NIGHT,  COUNCILMAN JOSH COLLISTER WAS RE-ELECTED,  DEFEATING

JIM TRIVETTEE  506 TO 209.


FOR SCHOOL BOARD, GREGORY BOPES WAS RE-ELECTED AND  A NEW MEMBER

WILL BE MARY HERRING.




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