BEAUTIFUL DAY AND NOT QUITE A HOT AS HAD BEEN FORECAST.
THE  HIGH HERE IN TOWN WAS 84.
TOMORROW, 86.
THURSDAY, AN 80% CHANCE OF RAIN AND A HIGH OF JUST 62.
THE WEEKEND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FORECAST IS FOR SUNNY
SKIES AND  70 SATURDAY AND 75 SUNDAY.

JACKSON COUNTY HAS A NEW COUNTY ATTORNEY.   TODAY, THE SUPERVISORS  APPOINTED SARA DAVENPORT TO REPLACE CHRIS
RAKER WHO RESIGNED TO GO INTO PRIVATE PRACTICE.
SARA HAS BEEN THE ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY HERE.
SHE SAID SHE WILL BEGIN SEEKING APPLICATIONS FOR HER ASSISTANT
RIGHT AWAY.     DAVENPORT WILL FILL OUT RAKER'S UNEXPIRED TERM UNTIL 2014 AND WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE AT THAT TIME.

MAQUOKETA POLICE OFFICER KENNIE SPARKS IS BACK TO WORK  AT THE MAQUOKETA POLICE DEPARTMENT AFTER BEING ON PAID ADMINISTRATIVE
LEAVE SINCE AUGUST 10TH.    HE WAS SUSPENDED FROM DUTY THEN BY CHIEF BRAD KORANDA.    THERE WAS AN INCIDENT AND AN INVESTIGATION.
KORANDA SAID IT WAS NOT A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BUT WAS ON
POLICY.   KORANDA SAID TODAY THAT SPARKS HAS BEEN DEMOTED FROM SERGEANT TO PATROL OFFICER.    HE HAS THE OPTION TO APPEAL
THE DEMOTION TO THE MAQUOKETA CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST NIGHT, SUPT. HUCKSTADT WAS DIRECTED BY THE BOARD TO BRING BACK A PROPOSAL AT THE END
OF THE MONTH TO BUY THE FORMER CITY POOL LAND.

AT THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING LAST  NIGHT, THE BOARD APPROVED
THE MOVE WHICH WILL MAKE  DARYL SCHEPERS AND KYLE BILLUPS AS
CO-COACHES FOR VARSITY WRESTLING AT MAQUOKETA HIGH THIS
SEASON.    LAST YEAR, SCHEPERS HAD THE TITLE AND BILLUPS WAS HIS ASSISTANT.   THE MOVE WAS MADE BY MUTUAL AGREEMENT.

THE HIGH SCHOOL STILL DOES NOT HAVE A GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

I WAS ON A CLINTON COUNTY CATTLE FARM THIS AFTERNOON LOOKING OVER A HUGE NEW SLURRY CATTLE FEEDING STRUCTURE.   MORE
ABOUT THAT TOMORROW.    

DENNIS VOY