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‘A lot of possibilities’

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Finding quality available child care can be a challenge in just about any community. And that lack of access can become a barrier for some parents seeking employment. According to Elizabeth Stanek, executive director of Linking Families and Communities, Webster County alone has a shortage ...

News of Record: Jan. 20, 2024

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Magistrate Court WEBSTER COUNTY Friday Second-degree theft — Jill Marie Ackerson, 40, Eagle Grove, preliminary hearing waived. Possession of a controlled substance, first offense — Robert James Higgins, 46, Gowrie, preliminary hearing waived. Assault causing bodily injury — Isis ...

Community Health Center to expand into Clarion

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CLARION — The Community Health Center of Fort Dodge will open another location in Wright County this spring to meet the high demand for medical, dental and behavioral health care there. The center’s leaders announced Friday that the former dental office of Dr. Pamela Kelch at 303 N. Main ...

USDA investing in small businesses and public works in rural Iowa

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Several area rural communities will be receiving federal funding for small business and public works projects, according to an announcement from the United States Department of Agriculture on Friday. Through the USDA’s Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant program Iowa Lakes Cooperative ...

Creating change

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A Fort Dodge teenager’s desire to make a positive impact on the world will continue later this month with a charity concert called Concert4Change. Corban McHone, 14, was inspired in late 2022 by his friend Brady O’Brien, a Fort Dodge man who has organized several benefit concerts over ...