Maquoketa News

Move-in day is here for the new Clinton Community College Maquoketa Center, located at 501 West Washington St., Maquoketa.

The Maquoketa Area Community Foundation is offering a scholarship for current and former Maquoketa Community High School graduates.

It's always best to be prepared for the worst. Words don't come easily when tragedy strikes with stunning force, as it did last week to the O'Connell Family.

A road trip ended tragically Sunday when a 15-year-old crashed her family's van near Maquoketa, Iowa, leaving her parents dead and injuring herself and two siblings.

June 26-27: Relay for Life, 6 a.m.-6 p.m., Jackson County Fairgrounds, 212 E. Platt St.

Jim Lucy is the pastor at Christian Community Fellowship, Maquoketa. MAQUOKETA, Iowa -- Each Sunday, Jim Lucy preaches in the first headquarters for the Salvation Army in Iowa.

To donate to the O'Connell children, send contributions to: The Joe and Anne O'Connell Family Fund M&I Bank 7447 University Ave.

A vacationing Madison, Wisconsin couple died and their three children are hospitalized after their van flipped over on Highway 61 north of Maquoketa Sunday.

THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED SUNDAY EVENING WHEN THE SOUTHBOUND VAN WENT OFF THE SHOULDER OF U.S. HIGHWAY 61 AND THE DRIVER OVERCORRECTED AND LOST CONTROL.

Two people are dead and three others are injured after a single car crash in Jackson county Police say a car travelling south on highway 61 north of Maquoketa drove off the road.

Financial backers of the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System got a chance to see their dollars at work Friday More>> Milford, IA daycare visited by DHS before MILFORD, Iowa -- A Northwest Iowa daycare under investigation after a 5-year-old girl was found with a jump rope wrapped around her neck.

Thomas E. Organ, age 79, of Maquoketa, Iowa, and formerly of Iowa City, Iowa died on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at the Jackson County Regional Health Center in Maquoketa, Iowa.

Her name was not provided to the TH. * The Jackson County Historical Society's garage sale started Tuesday and runs 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily through Friday at Boyer Hall at the fairgrounds in Maquoketa, Iowa.

Maquoketa Community High School's Club Hope will perform cleanup on Bellevue Island on the Mississippi River from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 13.

The Jackson County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved the first reading of a zoning change that would allow the operation of a biodiesel manufacturing facility in rural Maquoketa to continue.

How do you sign up? Contact your local attendance center for more information. Registration will be dependent on current registrants and available spots, which vary with each district.

The Maquoketa Optimist Club has contributed $500 each to four Maquoketa schools to help pay for items outside their budgets.

Hugh Bowman has worked at the same gas station on South Main Street in Maquoketa, Iowa, for more than 50 years.

Unexpected monetary windfalls -- not a problem Tom Stovall is used to. As the director of Operation: New View Community Action Agency, Stovall is usually scrambling to stretch shrinking budgets to help growing numbers of low-income people.

Chairman/CEO of Husco International, Agustin A. Ramirez talks about the Maquoketa, Iowa facility.