Wednesday, October 16, 2013

WEDNESDAY DAILY REPORT

CLOUDY AND COOL TODAY....HIGH OF ONLY 50.
TOMORROW, SUNNY AND 62....MAYBE THE THE LAST 60-PLUS DAY
FOR AWHILE.
FOOTBALL FRIDAY, PARTLY SUNNY AND HIGH OF 56.
SATURDAY, MOSTLY SUNNY AND HIGH OF 55.

A MAQUOKETA MAN IS IN STABLE CONDITION AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
IN IOWA CITY AFTER HE WAS STABBED LAST NIGHT AT 309 S. MAIN STREET.
KEVIN EHLINGER, AGE 38, SAID HE WAS JUMPED AND STABBED IN THE
LOWER ABDOMEN OUTSIDE HIS APARTMENT AROUND 7:45 P.M.
CHIEF BRAD KORANDA SAID EHLINGER ALSO LOOKED LIKE HE HAD BEEN BEATEN  UP IN HIS FACE.   EHLINGER SAID HE DID NOT SEE WHO HAD
STABBED HIM.   KORANDA SAID OFFICERS WENT INTO HIS APARTMENT
AND FOUND HIS LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND CASSIE RONEK, AGE 29, CLEANING UP.    SHE SAID THERE HAD BEEN A FIGHT BETWEEN HER AND EHLINGER.     NO ARREST HAS BEEN MADE AND THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.   

NEW PAVEMENT ON CENTERVILLE ROAD WAS DRIVEN ON BY A COMBINE,
A SMALL PICK-UP AND AN ATV.     THE SUPERVISORS ARE EMPHATIC THAT WHOMEVER DID THE VANDALISM BE CHARGED.   SUPERVISOR LARRY KOOS
SAID THEY HAVE A GOOD IDEA WHO DID IT.     AND SHERIFF RUSS KETTMAN
SAID HE HAS TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE IN THE AREA WHO GAVE HIM
INFORMATION.       PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THAT
NORTH JACKSON COUNTY ROAD TO BE PAVED.

CHARGES OF CRIMINAL MISCHIEF HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST FOUR
TEENS WHO ALLEGEDLY DAMAGED NINE MAILBOXES.    THE YOUTH WERE RELEASED TO THEIR PARENTS AND THE CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED
IN JACKSON COUNTY JUVENILE COURT. 

STAFF FROM THE MACBRIDE RAPTOR CENTER WILL BE RELEASING AN ADULT BALD EAGLE AT THE HURSTVILLE INTERPRETIVE CENTER AT 3 TOMORROW AFTERNOON.    THE EAGLE WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE EAST OF
MAQUOKETA ON SEPTEMBER 15TH.      IT SUFFERED NO BROKEN  BONES OR HEAD TRAUMA AND HAS BEEN CARED FOR AT THE RAPTOR CENTER.    
IT WILL BE RELEASED BACK INTO THE WILD.   THE DRIVER THAT HIT
IT,  STOPPED AND TOOK IT TO AUTHORITIES.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND THURSDAY.

DENNIS VOY