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Early Saturday afternoon, April 6, a Waukon Police Department Officer responded to 409 First Avenue NW for a report of a domestic assault of a juvenile phoned in by the juvenile, according to court documents. While in the downstairs area of the residence, the officer attempted to make contact with the suspect, who was located in the upstairs of the residence, at which time the suspect made a comment about someone dying.

The suspect then fired a .45 caliber gun one time, but no one was injured as a result of the firearm discharge. The suspect then came downstairs and turned himself in to law enforcement without further incident, admitting that he did aggressively grab and restrain his juvenile daughter, according to court documents.

Thursday, April 4 at approximately 1 p.m., the Allamakee County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Postville Police Department with the execution of a search warrant for a residence located at 2117 Cota Drive, Harpers Ferry. The search of the residence was in connection with a burglary at a business in the town of Postville, the investigation of which is ongoing. During the search, a .22 caliber rifle was located in plain sight within the residence, according to court documents.

As a result of the search, Mitchell Joseph Kubik, age 31, of rural Harpers Ferry was arrested without incident at the scene and charged with Possession/Control of a Firearm by a Felon, a class D felony. A criminal charge is merely an accusation. The defendant is presumed not guilty unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
 

The 2019 Kee High School Prom is scheduled for this Saturday, April 13. Pictured above are the senior class Queen and King candidates for the annual event. Left to right - Front row: Queen candidates Sahreya Dodd, Michelle Walleser and Keirsten Mathis. Back row: King candidates Logan West, Ryan Whalen and Shawn Wild. The annual banquet will be held at TJ Hunter’s Banquet Hall on Main Street in Lansing at 5:30 p.m. The dance will take place from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight in the banquet hall. The public is invited to attend the Grand March which is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., with doors opening to the public at 7:15 p.m. and a free-will donation being taken. Following the Grand March, this year’s Prom King and Queen will be crowned. Post Prom festivities will follow the dance until 4 a.m. at the former Lansing Middle School gymnasium. Photo courtesy of the Kee High School Yearbook.
 

A bridge repair project to remove and replace several structural steel pieces on the Iowa 9 (Black Hawk) Bridge over the Mississippi River at Lansing will require closing the bridge for approximately one week beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, April 15, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. (DOT). Motorists are also reminded that another popular route for local travelers to access the La Crosse/Onalaska, WI area via Lycurgus Road and Iowa River Drive (A26) also currently has a bridge closure at Irish Hollow Creek that features a detour via nearby gravel roads. The latest traveler information is available anytime through the Iowa DOT 511 system. Visit 511ia.org or call 511 (within Iowa) or 800-288-1047 (nationwide).

While the National Weather Service (NWS) river gauge for the Mississippi River in Lansing was the only one in the state of Iowa along the “Mighty Mississippi” to not raise above minor flood stage throughout the first week of April, the pictures above and below still show some pretty major water in the Lansing area Thursday and Friday, April 4-5. Although that NWS gauge seemed to become nonoperational during the latter portion of that week, it had registered just above the minor flood stage of 17 feet before - like other neighboring NWS-gauged areas - the river crested just prior to the weekend, topping out a few inches over that 17-foot mark at Lansing before falling below that 17-foot minor flood stage Monday morning, April 8.

by Kelli Boylen
Freelance writer

The menu varies not only from year to year, but from hour to hour. One will definitely find themselves choosing from venison, turkey and catfish, but there might also be squirrel, elk, buffalo, rabbit, alligator, duck and goose. There will be hundreds of items between the live and silent auction, and choice beverages will also be available.

It’s time for the annual Harpers Ferry Fire Department Wild Game Feed, and this year marks the 25th anniversary of the anticipated event.

According to Harpers Ferry Fire Chief Dave Cota, the Wild Game Feed started in 1994 when Robert Vavra brought up the idea of a game feed which had been held as a successful fundraiser in Swisher, where he was from. The fire department decided to give it a try and held the event at the local bar which Vavra owned.

by Kristin Kopperud-Stinn

April 4, 2019, I will be celebrating an enormous milestone in my life: the tenth anniversary of my heart transplant. I was born with numerous congenital heart defects, which surgeons worked tirelessly at correcting, patching or fixing prior to my transplant at the age of 24.

I participated in gym class until my freshman year of high school. I ran (or rather walked) a mile in 16 minutes and six seconds when I was in the fifth grade. I played the flute even though I had only 40% percent of a normal lung capacity for someone of my height and weight. I also played teeball and little league baseball.

by Lissa Blake

It should be business as usual.

That’s what Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank (FMSB) Senior Vice President Dennis Lyons had to say about the merger of FMSB and FreedomBank, which becomes effective this week.

In November of last year, FreedomBank announced it would merge with FSMB. FreedomBank currently has offices in Elkader, Monona and Postville. FMSB has locations in Waukon and Decorah.

FMSB has been owned by members of the northeast Iowa community since its inception in 1925 (primarily Waterville and Waukon). It currently has over 70 shareholders who live locally or have roots in northeast Iowa. Arthur Jacobson (d.o.d. 1986) and his family have had a controlling interest in the bank since prior to it moving to Waukon in 1962.

Intermittent lane closure will use flaggers and pilot cars

The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) road/sidewalk improvement project for State Highways 9 and 76 through Waukon is now underway, getting its start on the north end of the Hwy. 9/Allamakee Street portion of the project Monday, April 1. Although there are not expected to be any total road closures or detours involved, motorists should expect delays from intermittent lane closures along the route throughout the project, which is anticipated to continue through the end of September. To help motorists navigate those lane closures, flaggers and pilot cars will be used to guide traffic during the construction process.

by Susan Cantine-Maxson

The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) held an informational meeting at the Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library Thursday, March 21 with people interested in the historical aspects of the proposed Black Hawk Bridge replacement/repair project. The purpose of this meeting was to share thoughts and ideas with Brennan Dolan, the Iowa DOT  Cultural Resource Project Manager for Districts 1 and 2, which includes Allamakee County.