WE HIT 51 TODAY AND TIED THE RECORD HIGH FOR THIS DATE.
BUT COLDER WEATHER IS COMING THIS WEEKEND.

THE MAQUOKETA WRESTLERS BEAT VINTON-SHELLSBURG LAST NIGHT AND ALSO LOST TO WESTERN DUBUQUE, IN A DOUBLE-DUAL HERE IN TOWN. THE PROBLEM FOR MAQUKETA IS NOW WRESTLERS AT THE HEAVY WEIGHTS AND THEREFORE WE HAVE TO FORFEIT.

THE BASKETBALL TEAMS PLAY WATERLOO COLUMBUS TONIGHT...THE GIRLS HERE.

MARK BECK WAS RE-ELECTED CHIEF OF THE MAQUOKETA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR 2007, THE LONE CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB.
HE WILL BEGIN HIS 10TH YEAR AS CHIEF AND 24TH ON THE DEPARTMENT.
HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO BE CHIEF TO SEE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EXPANSION THIS YEAR AND POSSIBLY THROUGH THE STATE CONVENTION IN 2008, HERE IN MAQUOKETA. ALSO AT THE DEPARTMENT MEETING, JERRY WEIS, A 32-YEAR VETERAN OF THE DEPARTMENT, ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT.

MAQUOKETA FIREMEN PUT OUT A CHIMNEY FIRE ON SOUTH MAIN THIS MORNING, AT THE HEINRICH CHIROPRACTIC OFFICE. THE FIRE WAS CONTAINED IN THE CHIMNEY AND SOME SMOKE DAMAGE TO THE BUILDING. YEARS AGO, THAT BUILDING WAS THE HEPKER CHIROPRACTIC BUILDING.

BOB SCHWAGER, 60, OF RURAL MAQUOKETA DIED YESTERDAY.
HIS OBITUARY CAN BE READ AT www.laheys.com

CECIL BARASEL, AGE 90, DIED THIS MORNING AT THE MAQUOKETA CARE CENTER. HIS FULL OBITUARY WILL BE UP SOON AT www.carsonandson.com

GOT A NICE EMAIL FROM RICH TAYLOR. HIS PARENTS, FLOYD AND MAXINE, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, CELEBRATED THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY IN DECEMBER.
RICH TEACHES GEOGRAPHY AT A MIDDLE SCHOOL IN ORLANDO. HE
HAS TAUGHT SCHOOL 34 YEARS. HE HAS TWO DAUGHTERS AND BOTH ARE EXPECTING, SO HE WILL BECOME A GRANDFATHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, TWICE THIS SPRING.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY