Madison County

Turning to the Iowa Today section, we have an article, "Parents Sue State Investigators After Son's Death.

Madison County Couple Cleared as Suspects But Couldn't Get Daughter Back." This is by Clark Kaufman out of the Iowa Capital Dispatch.

The parents of an infant who police allege was killed by a daycare provider are now suing state officials over their initial handling of the investigation.

Temery and Riley Reeves of Madison County are suing former Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Director Kelly Garcia, as well as DHHS child protection workers Wyatt Town and Sadie Ramey, and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent Beth Miller in a US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

The couple alleges that while their four-month-old son Beau lay dying in the hospital, government f- f-- government officials prevented them from being at the child's bedside, then coerced them into consenting to the temporary removal of their daughter from their home, and then failed to return their daughter after they were cleared of any wrongdoing.

According to the lawsuit, on October 8th, 2024, at roughly eight fifteen AM, Temery Reeves dropped off her son Beau and her three-year-old daughter, identified in court records as RR, with an unlicensed childcare provider, Melissa Hancock, in Warren County in South Central Iowa.

The following day, the lawsuit claims the Reeves were approached by Ramey and Town, who asked them to formally consent to the temporary removal of RR from their home pending the completion of a criminal investigation into the cause of the injury sustained by Beau.

Ramey and Town threatened to never let Temery and Riley see RR again if they refused to consent, the lawsuit alleges, adding that Ramey and Town also asserted it was the Reeves' duty as parents to prove why you should have access to your children.

After the 10,000 lakes and wilderness canoe country of Minnesota, today we're heading into Iowa, a state of rolling farmland, covered bridges, and small-town charm that quietly anchors the heart of the Midwest.

Iowa is known as the Hawkeye State, and while cornfields genuinely stretch to the horizon in every direction, this is also the state that gave the world Field of Dreams, the bridges of Madison County, and one of the most beloved state fairs in the entire country.

Iowa rewards travelers willing to slow down and appreciate genuine small-town hospitality, a quality this state has in real abundance from one county to the next.

The Great River Road follows the Mississippi along Iowa's eastern border, passing bluffs, small river towns, and wide open water views most travelers never expect from a landlocked sounding state.

The Loess Hills Scenic Byway winds through a genuinely unique landscape of wind-deposited hills in western Iowa, a rare geological formation found in only one other place on Earth.

Madison County's covered bridge route connects several of the state's most photographed historic bridges, immortalized by both a best-selling novel and a Hollywood film.

And the drive through Iowa's Amish country near Kelowna offers quiet farmland and horse-drawn buggies, sharing the road at a much slower pace.

Maquoketa Cave State Park hides an entire network of caves and rock formations most visitors never expect to find in Iowa's rolling farmland.

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the Red Delicious apple is, uh, it, it, where, where is it? Okay, so the, "First recognized in Madison County, Iowa.

Genetically selected for redder skin, causing the deselection of flavor as the genes that produce the yellow stripes are on the same chromosome as flavor-producing compounds." I don't understand.

Stop giving me Red Delicious apples.

Welcome to Bridging the Gap, the Madison County Chamber of Commerce podcast, where Madison County's stories and businesses connect.

I'm Sarah Pugh, the Executive Director of the Madison County Chamber of Commerce.

Each episode spotlights the people, businesses, and nonprofits that make our community thrive while sharing the stories behind what they do.

We're looking forward to learning more about their story and their connection to Madison County.

Today I'm here

with Megan Barrett, and Megan wears several hats for Covered Bridge Festival, and we're talking all things Covered Bridge Festival.

If you're interested in learning more, be sure to go to exploremadisoncounty.com, click on Cover Bridge Festival,

and all the details will populate for you.

Welcome to Bridging the Gap, the Madison County Chamber of Commerce podcast, where Madison County's stories and businesses connect.

I'm Sarah Pugh, the Executive Director of the Madison County Chamber of Commerce.

Each episode spotlights the people, businesses, and nonprofits that make our community thrive while sharing the stories behind what they do.

We're looking forward to learning more about their story and their connection to Madison County.

Today I'm here with Jared McDonald with the Madison County Historical Complex.

We're talking all things Covered Bridge Festival today.

Thank you so much for being here.

They might not remember it right now, but later on down the road when they're learning about something else, they draw that memory back out and go, I remember doing that at the historical museum or during Cover Bridge Festival or having this experience because that's what builds character and builds people.

Welcome to Bridging the Gap, the Madison County Chamber of Commerce podcast, where Madison County's stories and businesses connect.

I'm Sarah Pugh, the Executive Director of the Madison County Chamber of Commerce.

Each episode spotlights the people, businesses, and nonprofits that make our community thrive while sharing the stories behind what they do.

We're looking forward to learning more about their story and their connection to Madison County.

All right, today I am here with Jennifer Fries with the Cover Bridge Festival Planning Committee.

Thank you so much for being here today.

communities because we have awesome brick and mortar people and we want them to you know we're putting 17 000 people at their front step too so say they peek in for just a few minutes and pop back out we want those people to come back so that way they're coming back to winterset Not only are they maybe possibly coming back while they're here, they're getting gas here, hopefully staying at a hotel here.

They might pop off the square and go eat somewhere at a restaurant somewhere off.

18, I think.

It's just, it's, but it, the crazy part is, and it's talking about, isn't it talking about Madison County, Alabama though? What's that? Is it, is it talking about Madison County? Like, is it talking about the area of, of Alabama? That's something that's associated in my brain.

There's a Madison County is up North Alabama and there's a lot of covered bridges there and stuff.

I don't know if that's true.

That just might be something I made up.

Madison County, Iowa.

Okay.

That's what I was talking about is Iowa.