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- Thursday: Mostly sunny and humid, with a high of 80 and low of 61 degrees.
- Friday: Humid with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 83, low: 63.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and humid, with a high of 86 and low of 69 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Ladies Luncheon →
Harvestville Farm, 1977 IA-2, Donnellson
12:00 pm -
Strings Attached →
Hotel Manning - Riverview Inn and Standard Motor Lodge, 100 Van Buren St, Keosauqua
7:00 pm -
Keosauqua Sale Company →
Keosauqua Sales Co, 20555 IA-1, Keosauqua
9:00 am -
Volleyball: IGHSAU Officials Scrimmage (Varsity)
Central Lee Elementary School Donnellson, IA 52625
5:30 pm -
Teacher Inservice
Central Lee Community School District Central Lee High School
7:45 am -
Jimmy Fortune →
Midwest Old Threshers - Business Office, Reunion & Heritage Museums, 405 E Thresher Rd, Mt Pleasant
8:00 pm -
Mount Pleasant, IA →
Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, 405 E Thresher Rd, Mt Pleasant
7:00 pm -
District Meeting →
Vinnie's Longbranch, 2601 Avenue L, Fort Madison
1:00 pm -
Dylan Scott →
Midwest Old Threshers - Business Office, Reunion & Heritage Museums, 405 E Thresher Rd, Mt Pleasant
8:00 pm -
JIM BAIER CHUTE OUT + NIKO MOON →
Tri-State Rodeo, 2103 303rd Ave, Fort Madison
7:00 pm -
Jim Baier w/ Niko Moon →
Tri-State Rodeo, 2103 303rd Ave, Fort Madison
7:00 pm -
Fairfield All-Star Jazz Band →
Hotel Manning - Riverview Inn and Standard Motor Lodge, 100 Van Buren St, Keosauqua
6:30 pm
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What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Innovairre Communications, LLC posted a job opening for Press Operator - Night Shift in Mount Pleasant. Apply here.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken posted a job opening for KFC Team Member in Mount Pleasant. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Salem here.
🗞 Nearby News
New London
- Robert Eldridge (mississippivalleypublishing.com)
Fairfield
- Jefferson County Health Center Receives American Heart Association Silver Award for Rural Stroke Care (ottumwaradio.com)
- MIU Athletics Hires Lawrence Eyre as Assistant Tennis Coach (ottumwaradio.com)
- Nancy Faye Weaton (ottumwaradio.com)
Fort Madison
- Douglas M. Decker, 68, Fort Madison (pencitycurrent.com)
- Rodeo youth pageant contestants out (pencitycurrent.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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