Keokuk News

Lee County community leaders spent Wednesday discussing possible tools to spur sustainable growth in the economy.

Samantha M. Powers, 22, 312 Cherry, for Theft over $500 at County Market Express, 923 N. 12th, at 1745 hrs of 01/13/12.A Released on NTA.

Raymond D. Cooper apparently had other plans, and willingly going to jail wasn't a part of it.

Alcoholics Anonymous - local chapters are: * Burlington: Meetings are at noon Monday through Saturday; at 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday through Sunday.

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How to improve and grow Lee County will be the focus of an upcoming summit. Lee County Sustainability Summit invites leaders, community members and businesses to examine the county and explore growth strategies Wednesday in the Millennium Center, 610 Timea St., Keokuk.

Twelve area schools, including West Burlington's DyNamix, will compete in the ninth annual Keokuk High School Show Choir Invitational Feb.

Lee County's Democratic lawmakers easily pointed to signs the economy is growing in the state and across the region.

Walt Winkler is juggling several balls to get the Keokuk Area Hospital finances where they should be, and he's waiting for the right one to land in his hand.

A logger has been fined for destroying an American bald eagle nest when he cut down a tree along the Des Moines River in southeast Iowa.

A search warrant issued in Keokuk leads to aA shake and bake meth operation and to the arrest of four.

The Lee County Sustainability Summit, an Iowa State University Extension program, has been scheduled Feb.

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Ferguson has more than 30 years of experience in the newspaper business, most recently as 12 years as publisher of the Estes Park Trail Gazette in Estes Park, Colo.

Few bald eagles arrived last year for the annual Bald Eagle Appreciation Days, but that wasn't the case this year.

Brenna Norman/The Hawk Eye Lorenzo Patterson dances Sunday during the veteran's dance at the Standing Bear Winter Gathering at the Faith Family Christian Church in Keokuk.

John Jacob Kline ran out of gasoline at the wrong place, at the wrong time and wearing the wrong clothes.

The Drama Club of Central Lee High School in Donnellson will present an original children's play, "The Ball," at 1:30 p.m. today in the Keokuk Public Library's Round Room.

Jim Holsinger wasn't always a family doctor. Handed a golden parachute after years as a food marketer, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by heading to medical school in his mid-40s. When he completed his training and went to set up a solo practice in Keokuk, Iowa in 2003, adopting an EHR at the outset was such an obvious choice that he didn't even ... (more)

Keokuk Area Hospital staff and its board of directors already have received local support for the facility in an effort to keep its doors open.