Denmark News

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.

Asbury United Methodist Church, 2128 S. Main St., will hear the Rev. Jerry Rigdon's sermon "Our Deepest Fear" during the 9:45 a.m. service Sunday.

It was the end of the line for a Denmark teen who, after getting probation twice, was sent to prison Monday.

Bowlers in Fort Madison will have to find somewhere else to play as the lone bowling alley in the city went up in flames Wednesday morning, virtually destroying everything inside the building.

The Fort Madison Community School District will be held a community meeting Monday, January 5th.

What started out as a normal day for the students at Leeds Elementary quickly turned into a trip around the world.

MEDIA MEANDERINGS: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tracey, who reside at the Roy Park farm, are rejoicing over the arrival of a seven pound son born Feb.