Author: Nick Green

DAVENPORT – An American Idol champion and Iowa native returns to her home state on December 19 in Maddie Poppe’s Acoustic Christmas, a festive holiday concert featuring seasonal tunes and songs from the artist’s albums Songs from the Basement and Whirlwind, the latter described by Guitar Girl magazine as boasting “unforgettable melodies and cultivated songcraft.” A naive of Clarksville, Iowa, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Poppe had her first brush with fame opening for Diamond Rio at the 2016 Butler County Fair right after high-school graduation, and that June, she released her first album Songs from the Basement. The following summer in New York, Poppe auditioned for season 16 of American…

Iowa – Ryan Duffy is looking forward to living in Pennsylvania and its COVID mitigation. He and his family are scheduled to relocate to central Pennsylvania from the Des Moines area in the next few months and the school teacher who fought COVID in November is looking forward to living in a location with strict COVID mitigation. In Iowa, a mask mandate wasn’t implemented until mid-November. In the schools where he taught — middle and high school history — social distancing and masks were a mixed bag. He taught in a classroom with nearly 30 students. Duffy is certain he caught the novel…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Firefighters who responded to a fire alarm Sunday found someone deceased in a Davenport apartment. Shortly after 5 p.m., crews responded to The Heritage, 501 W. 3rd St., for a fire-alarm activation. Firefighters found smoke in the second-floor main hallway, with a sprinkler head activated in a second-floor apartment. During the investigation, the occupant of the apartment was found deceased. The sprinkler head extinguished the fire, and damaged was confined to that one apartment. Smoke damage was limited to the single affected unit, with minor water damage to neighboring units because of sprinkler activation. Occupants of neighboring…

DAVENPORT, IOWA – Waste Commission of Scott County facilities will close at noon Thursday, and will remain closed Friday, Dec. 25 for Christmas Day. The Scott Area Landfill and Scott Area Recycling Center will be reopen Saturday, Dec. 26. Scott Area Household Hazardous Material Facility and Electronics Recovery Center will reopen Monday, Dec. 28. Facilities will be closed Friday, Jan. 1, in observance of the New Year’s holiday. All facilities will reopen Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021, from 8 a.m. until noon. Facilities include: Scott Area Landfill, 11555 110th Ave., Davenport Scott Area Recycling Center, 5640 Carey Ave., Davenport Scott Area…

DAVENPORT, Iowa  – A portion of Kirkwood is closed in Davenport due to damages following a car crash over the weekend. Police say it is closed between Spring and Christie Streets. This is due to damages that occurred to the overhead railroad structure at Mound following a crash that happened on Saturday, Dec. 12. The road will be closed the week of December 14 while Canadian Pacific Rail repairs the structure.

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Friends and family celebrated with an emotional drive-by for Randy Burke, a Davenport, Iowa, man who is finally home after 163 days of battling the coronavirus. Randy was in hospitals and a rehab center fighting COVID-19 and bilateral pneumonia. His wife says his symptoms were severe. “Before he went into the hospital he didn’t feel good, had body aches, and just wanted to sleep. Then the next day he went from that to, ‘Oh no I can’t do this. I feel like I have knives in my head,’” says his wife Kathy. Randy was in the ICU…

DAVENPORT – Sydney Affolter is a 6-foot-tall senior guard/forward on the Marist basketball team. A Mt. Greenwood resident and St. Christina Elementary School graduate, she has been on the varsity her entire high school career. Affolter averaged 13.9 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.3 steals and 2 assists as a junior as the RedHawks advanced to a Class 4A sectional championship game. She recently committed to the University of Iowa. Her brother, Trey, is a sophomore on the basketball team at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. What did it mean to you officially signing with Iowa? “I was super excited. It…

Iowa – An investigation is underway into a homicide in northwest Iowa. The Lake Park Police Department says it got a 911 call around 11:30 am Tuesday about a possible murder in the 100 block of Maple Avenue. Officers arrived at the scene to find a dead woman inside a home. Lake Park police, the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office, the Dickinson County Attorney’s Office, and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are treating this death as a homicide. Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the Lake Park Police Department at 712-336-2525, or the Dickinson County Sheriff’s…