IT HAS BEEN SNOWING IN MAQUOKETA SINCE LATE THIS MORNING.
ABOUT 4 INCHES AND STILL COMING DOWN AT 3:30 P.M.

MAQUKETA CITY MANAGER BRIAN WAGNER RECEIVED A 3 AND1/2 PERCENT MERIT RAISE THIS WEEK. THIS HIS SECOND THIS YEAR. IN JULY, HE GOT A 3% RAISE ALONG WITH OTHER EMPLOYEES. HE GOES TO $78,218. HIS RAISE CAME ON A UNAMINOUS VOTE OF THE COUNCIL.

THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MINISTER, MEL VALDEZ, HAS ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION. HIS LAST DAY OF WORK WILL BE DEC. 31ST. HE HAS BEEN WITH THE CHUCH 2 1/2 YEARS AND IN HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION, SENT TO MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH, HE CITED HIS AND HIS WIFE'S HEALTH PROBLEMS.
HE HAS SERVED THE METHODIST CHURCH FOR 30 YEARS, INCLUDING 17 YEARS AS AN ARMY CHAPLAIN.

LAURA ELSNER, 83, OF DUBUQUE, DIED TODAY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SISTER, THERESA HANKEMEIER OF MAQUOKETA.

PHONE IS BUSY THIS AFTERNOON WITH WEATHER RELATED POSTPONEMENTS.

SOME FALL WEATHER WE ARE HAVING.

TAKE CARE.

DENNIS VOY