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The Allamakee County Veterans Museum will participate in Waukon Corn Days 2026, an event scheduled for this Friday, August 14 and this Saturday August 15.

The movie filmed in downtown Waukon in the 1940s by the Cote family for the Town Theatre (pictured at right) will be played. See what life in Waukon was like in the 1940s. Unfortunately, no video is available of past Corn Day events or parades.

The video will play continually from noon to 3 p.m. Friday, August 14 and also again from 9 a.m. to 12 Noon Saturday, August 15 in the meeting room of the Veterans Museum, located at 105 Allamakee Street in Waukon. The Veterans Museum will also be open for public tours during those timeframes.

The museum is air conditioned. There is no admission charge, and the museum is also accessible for wheelchairs and other assistance devices.
 

Sisters Coral and Pearl Brustkern of Waterloo display some of the prizes they were awarded as winners of this year’s Find Finney Contest, the annual contest that helps heighten anticipation of the annual Lansing Fish Days community celebration by having youth search for the tagged wooden fish (also being held by the young ladies in the photo above) hidden somewhere in the Lansing community, with help from a series of clues. The young Brustkern pair found Finney in his hiding place within the park atop Mt. Hosmer in Lansing, bringing an early end to the contest this year during one of their frequent visits to the Lansing area.

by Joshua Sharpe

The Lansing City Council met in regular session Monday, August 3, addressing a full agenda involving a variety of matters. A report on the city’s debt, approval of several resolutions, consideration of meeting date conflicts, and addressing concerns with grease accumulation in accordance with the city’s public sewer ordinance were some of the matters taken care of by the council at that August 3 meeting.

RESTROOM ACCESSIBILITY
During citizen concerns, Sarah Murray, Main Street Board of Directors member, requested that the council address the ongoing closure of the public restroom near Front and Main streets. She highlighted that this restroom is the only public facility on Main Street and noted that its closure poses challenges during busy downtown weekends, impacting efforts to present Lansing as accessible to residents and visitors.

Seventeen members of the Waukon High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter traveled to San Antonio, TX, to compete at the 2026 FBLA National Leadership Conference (NLC) from June 28 through July 3.

Accompanied by FBLA Advisor Joanne Ericson and chaperones Micah Miller, Kristin Berns, Anne Wuebker, and Jessa Burns, the students joined more than 18,000 FBLA members and chaperones from across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada for a week of competition, leadership development, and networking.

One of Waukon FBLA’s largest groups of National qualifiers in recent years represented the chapter after advancing from the Iowa FBLA State Leadership Conference. To qualify, students had to place in the top four at the State Conference to automatically qualify, or top 10 to qualify through the bump-up process.

To the Editor:

We all want leaders who put Iowa first. No matter our political party, we expect the people we elect to represent us, not any president, party, or special interest.

Sadly, Iowa’s U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators prioritize loyalty to Trump over addressing the needs of their constituents. These elected officials, who are of the same party as Trump and who control the House and Senate, voted for Trump’s  tariffs even though these raised the cost of groceries and essential goods.  They voted six times to support Trump’s war of choice in Iran even as the conflict has driven up fuel prices and farmers’ fertilizer costs with no end in sight.  They voted for Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires (H.R. 1) paid for on backs of ordinary Iowans, through cuts to healthcare, educational loans, food assistance, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security and programs that assist Iowa families.

To the Editor:

There is a phrase, The American Dream, that we could believe means the same thing to everyone. However, a conversation with our family, friends and neighbors could reveal there are many different versions of the phrase. Are any of the versions affordable food, gas, housing, child care or education?

My version of the American Dream is a fully funded health care system at the county, regional and national levels. County public health serves as investigators for local cases of contagious diseases and much more. Regional rural hospitals and medical professional serve citizens who live a distance apart from each other and services. National health care insurance is essential.

Deadlines/Dates
August 2: Non-Emergency Haying/Grazing of CRP Signup Opens
August 12: Deadline to submit an SDRP application
August 31: Deadline to complete Non-Emergency Haying of CRP; Deadline to Review Base Allocation Summary
September 15: Deadline to Update Payment Eligibility for Entities 
September 30: Deadline to Complete FY26 Mid-Contract Management on CRP; Deadline to remove livestock from Non-Emergency Grazing of CRP; Office Fiscal Year Rollover
October 1: FY27 Mid-Contract Management on CRP Opens
December 31: Deadline to Apply for OCCSP

by Joe Moses

The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday, August 10 to address a full agenda of matters including the consideration of the use of the county credit card for a hotel reservation relating to a conference, the discussion of agenda management software options, and the discussion and consideration of options relating to the county’s solid waste contract.

The meeting was called to order by Board of Supervisors Chairperson Tom Clark with Supervisors Dan Byrnes and Dennis Keatley present. During Public Comment, Byrnes made note of the 8K Walk/Run and 5K Walk/Run held Saturday, August 8 as part of the annual Fish Days celebration in Lansing. Byrnes noted that it was a record turn-out for the Walk/Run events held during Fish Days with Byrnes also noting that Allamakee County Zoning Administrator Stephanie Runkle was a first-place 5K female finisher in her age division.

Robey Memorial Library, in collaboration with the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation (OVLF), invites families to enjoy the August Main Street Story Walk. This month’s featured book is the children’s story “If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DON’T!” by Elise Parsley. Families are encouraged to stroll through downtown Waukon as the story unfolds in the windows of six participating local businesses.

The Story Walk spans six businesses along Allamakee Street, East Main Street, and Spring Avenue in Waukon. Each stop features a portion of the story, guiding readers from one location to the next for an interactive reading adventure for all ages. Participating businesses are labeled and named in the above map and include 1) Upper Iowa Insurance; 2) Steel Cow; 3) Impro; 4) Driftless Edit; 5) Luna Salon; and 6) Paws Up Pet Supplies.

The Waukon baseball team of 2026 played to one of the program’s best seasons in recent history with a 22-6 overall record, not only playing to its first winning record since the 2008 season but also recording the most wins since that 2008 season’s 31 victories. Within that overall mark, the baseball Tribe also played its way to a 14-3 Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) result that placed the Indians atop the Large School division of this season’s new UIC format, the first time since the 2007 season that Waukon baseball has finished atop any type of conference standings, with that 2007 campaign being the only time Waukon baseball ever won the Northeast Iowa Conference season title.