Army veteran Ronald Johnson, of Laurens, and his wife, Rosie, have adopted one of the younger generation’s rituals before traveling that simply didn’t exist in their own youth. They took a cell phone selfie Saturday morning before he boarded the 19th Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight to ...
The Fort Dodge City Council will receive an update on efforts to renovate the Warden Plaza when it meets Monday. The council will start its efforts with a workshop at 5 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S., regarding the plan to convert the vacant downtown structure into ...
There was a time when Azzi Bukhari had little money to speak of when he began working in Fort Dodge. “I had no money, believe me,” Bukhari said from inside his new store called New Starr, located at 704 Ave. C. Pakistan-born Bukhari began as a worker in 2015 at New Star Liquor and ...
UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine – Kenyon Road is proud to welcome Bobbi Thacker, advanced registered nurse practitioner, to our team of experienced and dedicated providers. Thacker has been a part of the UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge team since 2012. She started as a registered nurse ...
Fort Dodge and the city of Gjakova in the European nation of Kosovo came together across the globe to form a new bond as sister cities a little more than three years ago. Today, four representatives of the local community are traveling to the Balkans to renew that bond. And while they’re in ...
Iowa Central Community College will host a Goldman Sachs informational event for the next cohort of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. The event is 4 p.m. on Wednesday Todd McCubbin, co-owner of ShinyTop Brewing, will be a guest speaker. He is a graduate of the program. ...
AMES — It took some convincing, but Madeline Schultz finally decided to add to her job duties at Iowa State Extension and Outreach 11 years ago. Schultz, who is program manager with the ISU Department of Economics and member of the ISU Extension and Outreach farm management team, added the ...
Northwest Bank has been awarded a 2019 Top Workplaces honor by the Des Moines Register. The Top Workplaces are based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey administered by Energage, LLC, a leading research firm that specializes in organizational health and workplace ...
Four local high school students had the opportunity of a lifetime to visit Fort Dodge’s “sister city” of Gjakova, Kosovo, during the summer. Fort Dodge Senior High sophomores Cayci Bidleman, Isabel Gruver and Caden Elliott, as well as St. Edmond High School freshman Emma Alstott, ...
AMES — As a less than desirable growing season continues, if you happen to come upon an insect or diseased plant and are having troubles making a diagnosis, look no further than to the Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic on the Iowa State University Campus in Ames for help. Ed Zaworski, ...
MaKenzie Hawley has joined the LifeWorks Community Services Board of Directors. As a board member, Hawley will provide oversight to LifeWorks’ paid leadership as they fulfill the organization’s mission. The mission of LifeWorks Charitable Foundation is to provide financial support ...
Corky Banwell, a member of the Fort Dodge Senior High class of 1954, has helped to ensure that her classmates stay in touch. And with the help of Banwell, the class celebrated again on Saturday with its 65-year reunion held at Zakeer’s. “It (organizing) started out with just a ...
DES MOINES — Ronald McDonald House recently received a $5,000 donation from Hy-Vee, Inc. to provide Home Away From Homes for out of town families with critically ill children. Families travel to Des Moines to seek the medical care needed to treat and manage their child’s illness. ...
POCAHONTAS — An Emmetsburg woman died after two vehicles collided head-on, north of Pocahontas Friday morning, according to the Iowa State Patrol. Sgt. Wes Niles, of the Iowa State Patrol, identified the deceased woman as Kendra Myers, 52. The crash was reported at 9:50 a.m. According ...
The inaugural Afro-Latino Festival is being held Tuesday from 8 a.m. to noon in the Student Resource Center on Iowa Central’s main campus. The event is open to the public. Admission is free. There will be dozens of tables representing different Latin American and Caribbean countries, ...
As the crane from McGough Construction gingerly swung the new sculpture “Chronicle” into place on its concrete pad east of the Municipal Building Friday morning, its creator, Waterloo artist Dan Perry, was seeing it in a way he’d never seen it before. “This is the first time I’ve ...
BARNUM — By The Grace of God Church, Barnum, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Sept. 29. There will be a special service at 9:30 a.m. with guest speaker Adelia Griffel, age 97. There will be an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. with refreshments served and music by local artist Clint Riedel, ...