WEBSTER CITY — This week City Manager John Harrenstein received a letter from Quest Site Solutions, confirming Webster City’s Gateway Industrial Park, the new and official, name for Webster City’s southeast industrial park, is now certified for development. Reflecting on the news, ...
UnityPoint Health plans to transfer some of its information technology work to an outside contractor later this year in a move that will eliminate 207 jobs. It also plans a similar transition for what it calls its “revenue cycle” functions. Details of that process are being worked out. “Like many health systems across the country, we are navigating a period of sustained financial pressure that requires us to make difficult but necessary decisions,” Scott Kizer, the president and chief executive officer of UnityPoint Health, said in a written statement. “Our focus is to ...
Soldier Creek Winery plans to increase its production of bubbly wines and hard cider. A recently awarded state grant will help the Webster County business pay for the machine that will enable it to do that. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship gave the winery a ...
Winter may still have some fury left, but Todd Christeson, agronomy manager at United Co-op in Webster City, is looking forward to serving customers when the soil warms and the tractors and planters hit the fields again. After years when central Iowa has seen frequent drought conditions, ...
When Michael Doster graduated from St. Edmond High School 16 years ago, he wasn’t planning on a career in medicine. He went off to college with other plans in mind. But once he got interested in caring for people he knew exactly where he wanted to do that — back home in Fort Dodge. After a stint working in hospital medicine at UnityPoint Health — Trinity Regional Medical Center, the advanced registered nurse practitioner is now settling into a family medicine practice. “I like just being able to connect with people and have them feel that we’re caring about them,” he ...
Four years ago, Kody Linder decided to throw his hat into the lawn-care ring. The Fort Dodge native knew there were plenty of competitors in the local market, so he had to quickly find a way to differentiate his new business — Diamond Pro Lawn Services – from the pack. The ...
