WEBSTER CITY Wildcat Distilling Co. announced that its Tillmans Small Batch Whiskey has been awarded a bronze medal from the American Distilling Institute’s International Spirits Competition (ADI ISC). The judging panel described the whiskey as having “an engaging aroma, good balance, ...

WEBSTER CITY — Local pork processor Webster City Custom Meats Inc. became a division of Midwest Quality Wholesale Inc. at the beginning of this month. Midwest Quality Wholesale Inc. is a subsidiary of Fareway Stores Inc., which is based in Boone. Phil Voge, WC Custom Meats’ vice ...

KALO — Tom Krough, co-owner of Kalo Kustoms Garage in Kalo, is a pretty lucky guy. He gets to spend every day he works in the shop with his daughter, Hannah Krough. She’s the other co-owner. “It’s just perfect,” Tom Krough said. “We’re on the same page all the ...

WEBSTER CITY — At Farmstand, it’s the Year of Growth. That’s what owners Zoami Calles Sosa and Antonio Rios call it. The couple opened the greenhouse at 1544 Second St. in 2021. They refer to that year as the Great Planting. Farmstand’s second year, 2022, they call the Year of ...

A self-described serial inventor, Fort Dodge native Kevin Friesth has brainstormed roughly 40 items that have resulted in U.S. and international approved patents that he holds. Friesth first got the technology bug as a teenager in the early 1980s. That’s when he began working to adapt ...

What started as a simple hobby in her spare time became a professional passion for Fort Dodge’s Lindsay Alstott, owner of the popular local sign-making company, Pallet Junkie. Alstott, a 2003 Fort Dodge Senior High School graduate, had a general concept for her business model six years ...