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The Muscatine County Board of Supervisors agreed to begin negotiations with the residents along a road in rural Conesville the county is considering vacating.

Lake Tahoe native, Jay Schweitzer has spent the last 26 years in the trenches filming and editing Daredevil-inspired films, focusing on long distance jumps, free riding terrain and FMX, freestyle motorcycle sports.  Schweitzer started his...

Retired Army Master Sergeant Edward C. "Curt" Hartilieb II will replace Adam Caudle as director of Louisa Countys Veterans Service Office.

A representative of Natel Broadband said a $75,000 contribution would help financially with the project. He said the investment would help provide some county residents with quality 100/100 Mbps broadband service for $79 per month. Slower 50/50 Mbps service would run about $59 per month.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Quigley said he did not think the supervisors were prepared to make any decision because much of the FY 23 preliminary budget information was still unknown.

Much of the discussion during the board meeting focused on the sheriff’s salary and the impact from a new state law that was approved by the Iowa Legislature and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Jim Rudisill for The Hawk Eye Supporters of a nearly 30-year-old, eight-phase project that would establish an estimated $6 million interpretive center adjacent to the Langwood Education Center east of Grandview met Tuesday with county officials and other interested individuals to discuss the project’s next step. Al Bohling, president of the Tri-Rivers Conservation Foundation, which has been assisting the Louisa County Conservation Board since about 1991 on the proposed Louisa Interpretive Ce...

Jim Rudisill for The Hawk Eye WAPELLO — Although the remaining Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposals for Louisa County departments and other spending categories were reviewed Friday by the county board of supervisors, it was a later discussion on dealing with next year’s proposed salary increases that ended up dominating the meeting. The salary discussion has been the elephant in the room for the supervisors since the budget reviews began last week. Traditionally the supervisors have provided a...

Louisa County Development Group seeks more support from Columbus Junction and Wapello Jim Rudisill #toedit-mn #r4p COLUMBUS JUNCTION — A proposal to expand the amount of funding Columbus Junction currently provides to help finance the Louisa Development Group’s executive director position was presented Wednesday to the city council. Mayor Mark Huston said he and council member Frank Best recently attended a meeting where the proposal was unveiled to them, Wapello city officials and other l...

Louisa County Compensation Board recommends salary increases Jim Rudisill for The Hawk Eye WAPELLO — A recommendation to provide Fiscal Year 2022 salary increases of 2 or 7% for Louisa County elected officials was approved Monday by the Louisa County Compensation Board. Under the recommendation, which will be forwarded to the board of supervisors for action, the 7% increase would go to auditor Sandi Elliott, treasurer Vicki Frank, recorder Tammy Hayes and attorney Adam Parsons. The 2% boost...