Montrose News

Instead of lunch, department officials have combined their efforts to construct a new building to house both offices, as well as a new environmental interpretive center.

An inmate at the Lee County jail in Montrose has been accused of damaging the jail's fire sprinkler system, causing more than a dozen inmates to be evacuated.

Since no candidate received a simple majority, there will be a runoff election between the top two vote-getters, Betts and Marion, on Dec.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye The new video chat device in the Lee County Correctional Center allows inmates to talk with visitors without being face-to-face. Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye The newly expanded Lee County Correctional Center sits south of Fort Madison.

3 for the city election. The Keokuk mayor and seven of nine council seats will be up for election this year.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Adrianna Prado, 5, of Fort Madison, left, and Graci Carlton, 4, of State Center, Iowa, scream while riding a free fall ride during the annual Mexican Fiesta Friday in Fort Madison.

Area farmers markets will wind down over the next several weeks, some ending for the season this month and others lasting into or through October.

By JOHN MANGALONZO jmangalonzo@thehawkeye.com Taylor Michael Ballard contends he is being schooled inside the Lee County Juvenile Detention Center in Montrose, but he finds it easy and it's not the same as getting a high school diploma.

William Elliott Whitmore I can't recommend this guy's music highly enough. Check out his track "Mutiny." Here is what Daytrotter says about him : William Elliott Whitmore doesn't believe in a heaven or a hell.

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye Dayton Heston, 4, of Warsaw, Ill., prepares to devour a slice of watermelon while attending the 65th annual Watermelon Festival Saturday in Montrose with his mom and twin brother Dakota.

William Elliott Whitmore feels like he owes Des Moines a show. The banjo-playing singer-songwriter was set to play here a few years back, but got sidetracked by 'a little run-in with the law,' he said.

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.

Officials plan to bring out the ceremonial shovels in early August to break ground for the planned Fort Madison reverse osmosis water treatment plant.

That's the amount of time Michael DaJuan Hicks, a Burlington teenager convicted for his part in an armed robbery last year, spent in the Iowa penal system -- all of them at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in Oakdale, the single point of reception for those sentenced to serve prison time in Iowa.

Greald Dean Wixom, 45, his wife, Mary Ann Wixom, 50, were booked in the Des Moines County jail, both charged with tampering with a witness.

Councilman's stepson gets 10 years for robbery that netted $5.45. By JOHN MANGALONZO jmangalonzo@thehawkeye.com Michael DaJuan Hicks wept as he talked on a cell phone while being closely guarded by a Des Moines County Sheriff's deputy just outside a small courtroom Wednesday.

The violations occurred during a biannual sting conducted by the Lee County Sheriff's office earlier this year, Sheriff Buck Jones said.