NO SNOW OVER NIGHT. STARTED SNOWING ABOUT
8 THIS MORNING AND ENDED ABOUT MID-AFTERNOON.
I WOULD GUESS ABOUT 2 INCHES OF SNOW TOTAL.
IT WILL BE COLD TONIGHT..DOWN TO ABOUT 15.

SOME SCHOOLS LET OUT EARLY TODAY AND QUITE A FEW CANCELLATIONS OF EVENTS TONIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE.

THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY'S FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY HAS ISSUED A 2004 GRANT TO JACKSON COUNTY FOR $13,804. THE FUNDS MAY BE USED TO SUPPLEMENT FOOD, SHELTER, RENT, MORTGAGE AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE WITH NON-DISASTER RELATED EMERGENCIES.

THE JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD ITS ANNUAL SOUP SUPPER AND BASKET AUCTION LAST NIGHT.
NANCY AND I WENT AND WE ENJOYED A BREAD BOWL OF POTATO SOUP AND FOR DESSERT, SOME BREAD PUDDING WITH RUM SAUCE. BREAD PUDDING WITH RUM SAUCE...HARD TO BEAT. STEVE MOREHEAD WAS AGAIN THE AUCTIONEER.


JR'S WINE AND SPIRITS IN MAQUOKETA REPORTED TO POLICE THAT A MALE TOOK A BOTTLE OF LIQUOR VALUED AT $42.69 FROM THE STORE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. HE LEFT WITHOUT PAYING.

NO ONE INJURED IN A TWO-VEHICLE ACCIDENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ON WEST SUMMIT. AMY STREFF, AGE 45, WAS CHARGED WITH STOP SIGN VIOLATION. STREFF WAS DRIVING NORTH AT SUMMIT AND AT INTERSECTION WITH VERMONT AREA, RHONDA RYAN, AGE 41, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS TURNING LEFT ONTO VERMONT. STREFF DID NOT STOP AND COLLIDED WITH THE RYAN VEHICLE. DAMAGE OF ABOUT $500 TO STREFF'S 2002 PONTIAC AND AROUND $500 ALSO TO RYAN'S 86 FORD.

NO DEATHS.

HOLD STILL. AH...PERFECT. I JUST HIT YOU WITH A SNOWBALL.

YOU GUYS DOWN SOUTH....DON'T EAT IT. IT HAS OUR
HUMID AIR IN IT.

C-U TOMORROW.

DENNIS VOY