WEBSTER CITY — When it comes to convenience stores, Brew Oil’s name says it all. These are the familiar, friendly places we go to fill our tanks with fuel and fuel ourselves with coffee. Early in 2026, Webster City learned the former Doc’s Stop at 407 Closz Drive had been acquired ...
When Craig Jarrard opened his Fort Dodge shoe store in 1996, he had one employee and 3,000 square feet of space. Thirty years later, he has a staff of 18, a much larger store, and customers whose families have been shopping with him for three generations. Ask him what accounts for that ...
Closing the purchase of a home can be a confusing process loaded with a mind boggling array of documents. There is a Fort Dodge business dedicated to helping ease that procedure for buyers and sellers. That firm, Snell Settlement Services, has been in business since 2002 and now has a new ...
John Daniel II was newly graduated from the University of Iowa pharmacy school when his parents helped him open Daniel Pharmacy at 1114 Central Ave. in 1963. The business with its unique neon signs out front has been a fixture in the community ever since. Generations of area families have ...
Greg Rottinghaus has an upstairs office in the Fort Dodge Hy-Vee store, but he likes to spend his time on the sales floor helping customers. He is a few months into his tenure as store director, and finds working with people to be the most rewarding part of the job. “For me, it’s ...
RUTLAND — Meat processor Don Thul grew up in northwest Iowa on a livestock farm, raising cattle and hogs with his dad. He opened his own meat processing business after 18 years with Iowa Beef Producers, and that business venture led him to develop a line of tallow products that people ...
