Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
WAPELLO The 240 or so residents of the small Louisa County town of Fredonia have a choice to make either volunteer to serve as a city leader or risk seeing the 177-year-old community become an unincorporated hamlet of the county or possibly absorbed by Columbus Junction, its larger sister community just across the Iowa River.
Current city councilmen Rob Bright and Bob Reid and city clerk Sharon Torres presented this assessment Tuesday to the Louisa County Board of Supervisors during its regular weekly meeting.
The trio said it is becoming too difficult to operate the city because so few people were willing to be a civic leader. They approached the supervisors to learn their position on the unincorporation issue.