KLEMME — Several thousand acres in Hancock County were hit with a large wind and hail event during the early morning hours of July 10. While those producers are dealing with a devastating blow due to that storm, many producers throughout the state are also dealing with some potential ...

HUMBOLDT — A brand-new Fareway Store located just two blocks west of the intersection of U.S. Highway 169 and Iowa Highway 3 at 1700 10thAve. N. is now serving Humboldt County residents. The 19,000-square-foot, state-of-the art facility replaces an earlier Fareway Store in downtown ...

WEST BEND — J.B. Mertz & Son of West Bend is celebrating 100 years as a John Deere dealer. The dealership was started in Ottosen by J.B. Mertz in 1907 as an implement business. It became a John Deere franchise in 1917. While in Ottosen, J.B. Mertz managed the implement store, ...

WEST DES MOINES — The American Hospital Association’s Health Forum has named UnityPoint Health a 2017 Most Wired Advanced Health System. UnityPoint Health is the only health system in Iowa and Illinois to achieve advanced status. The Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study recognizes ...

GOWRIE — Heartland Bank has a new home in Gowrie. On June 26, customers were welcomed to the bank’s brand-new building at 1201 Market St. This location is about a block and a half from its longtime previous venue. The new facility has been under construction since groundbreaking took ...

Editor’s note: Interns involved in the Internship+ Program through the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance share a little about themselves each Sunday throughout the summer. This is the last of that series of Q&As. Olivia COOL Hometown: Denver, Colorado School: Iowa State ...

RUNNELS — One of the most predominant female voices touting Iowa agriculture wears many hats, including that of mom, wife, pork producer and blogger. Cristen Slings Clark grew up on a grain and cattle farm in Jasper County. She and her sister still drive the grain cart for their dad ...

Just a bit more than two years ago, a new era began at Guthrie and Associates Real Estate when Scott and Katie Underberg became the new owners of one of the town’s oldest real estate firms. Both Underbergs were real estate agents affiliated with the agency prior to taking the helm of the ...

Drivers along Second Avenue North will have noticed a change to one of the newer convenience stores in town. It’s only a change in the sign, though. Although the former Kwik Star Express is now called Tobacco Outlet Plus Grocery, everything inside has stayed the same. “Same products, ...

By DARCY DOUGHERTY MAULSBY yettergirl@yahoo.com LAKE CITY — What if there were proven conservation practices that didn’t require taking farmland out of production? What if some of these practices could offer water quality solutions and provide wildlife habitat? Even better, what if ...

The Webster County ISU Extension office will be hosting an “Evaluating Your Estate Plan” workhop from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on July 26 at the Extension office in Fort Dodge. The “Evaluating Your Estate Plan” workshop has been very popular all across Iowa. Families and individuals ...

SPENCER — Exhibitors everywhere are invited to be part of this year’s Farm Gadget Show at the 2017 Clay County Fair. The show, which started in 2015, began from the “All Around the Farm” page that comes out in the back of every “Successful Farmer” magazine. “Exhibits don’t ...

Some deaths are sudden and unexpected. Often, however, a dying person and their family members have substantial advance warning that death will come soon. Helping patients and families through those difficult times is the specialized role played locally by UnityPoint at Home Hospice, which ...

Editor’s note: Interns involved in the Internship+ Program through the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance share a little about themselves each Sunday throughout the summer. This is another in that series of Q&As. CAL TAUBER Hometown: Dubuque School: Wartburg College Major: ...

All across America taking time out for a coffee drink has been revolutionized by Starbucks. In Fort Dodge, partaking of that company’s plethora of coffee concoctions and sampling enticing foods carefully crafted to accompany the beverage selected can now be part of a shopping excursion to ...

Editor’s note: Interns involved in the Internship+ Program through the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance share a little about themselves each Sunday throughout the summer. This is another in that series of Q&As. KATHERINE SHORT Hometown: Webster City School: Iowa State ...

DES MOINES — Many tractor enthusiasts will tell you they bleed the color of their favorite tractor, and red was the color last week at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. The 28th annual Red Power Round Up, hosted by the International Harvester Collectors Club Iowa Chapter 5, was ...

SCHALLER — Remington Seeds LLC an Indiana-based seed production and processing company has announced plans to begin expansion of its Schaller soybean seed facility. The initial expansion plans will include construction of new receiving, storage, processing, packaging, and bulk load out ...

EAGLE GROVE — It was 1917 when a man from Fulda, Minnesota, arrived to Eagle Grove with his family in a horse-drawn wagon to open the Eagle Grove Greenhouse. One hundred years later, that man’s grandson, Clarence Wilde, and his wife, Betty Wilde, continue to operate that same ...

Editor’s note: Interns involved in the Internship+ Program through the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance share a little about themselves each Sunday throughout the summer. This is another in that series of Q&As. anna yung Hometown: Fort Dodge School: Iowa State University Major: ...