Denmark News

Asbury United Methodist Church, 2128 S. Main St., will hear the Rev. Jerry Ridgon's sermon, "Alpha and Omega, Rev.

Residents here have been warned to boil their drinking water by the Rathbun Rural Water Association.

Eighteen-year-old Colin Lingenfelter was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred near the residence of 2231 Iowa 16, said Lee County Sgt.

Johns United Church of Christ, 501 10th St., in Fort Madison. The free meal starts at 5:30 p.m., and the budgeting session at 6:15 p.m. Organizers plan to hold similar sessions at the same time and location on Sept.

Lee County Sheriff's officials said Lane Robert Gray of Denmark was riding his bicycle on the south side of Iowa 16 in Denmark.

Jim Butler is on a roll this summer. The Fort Madison golfer won the Iowa Senior Match Play Championship, finished second in the Senior Division of the Hunters Ridge Amateur and won last week's Clinton Riverboat Days Amateur Senior Division.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Southeast Iowa Community Players perform a scene during the dress rehearsal of " The Music Man" Thursday at the Danville Junior High gymnasium.

Fort Madison School District Superintendent Kenneth Marang has tapped Fort Madison High School Assistant Principal Kent Bailey to head the 240-student Denmark school.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Bob Chesnut, 83, who lives northwest of Wever, right, and Charles DeWitt, 76, of Wever make jokes while reminiscing Sunday about being a firefighter in 1959 while gathered for an interview at the Wever Fire and Rescue station.

Rural Lee County residents -- helpless and alarmed at the prospect of becoming neighbors with a new rock quarry -- turned to the Lee County Board of Supervisors Tuesday for help.

Iowa's wind power industry surged past California and Minnesota in 2008 to rank second nationally in generating capacity, according to a new report.