From our files: June 12, 2018
10 Years ago: June 12, 2008
NEWS: Joe Gilbert was flooded out of his home for the second time in nine months, only a week after returning home after the first flood in September 2007.
SPORTS: Humboldt beat Hampton-Dumont 4-1 in softball.
25 Years ago: June 12, 1993
NEWS: A memorial to Capt. Darrell Lindsey, a 1938 graduate of Fort Dodge High School and the only Fort Dodger to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, was rededicated in Jefferson.
SPORTS: Fort Dodge beat Mason City 6-5 and 10-8 in baseball.
50 Years ago: June 12, 1968
NEWS: Fern Thayer, a resident of Friendship Haven, had spent 29 years bedridden due to severe arthritis, but still mastered knitting, crocheting, tatting and painting.
SPORTS: The Fort Dodge Merchants beat Nevada 14-0 in baseball.