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Clubhouse is latest sign of teamwork between city, college

Sports have the ability to bring people together. It turns out that they also have the ability to bring organizations or institutions together. An example of that ability is developing now at Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex north of Fort Dodge. The sports complex, perhaps best known for being the site of the annual girls state softball tournament for more than 50 years, is a collection of softball, baseball and soccer fields owned by the city government. It includes four youth baseball fields that are replicas of Yankee Stadium in New York, Fenway Park in Boston, Wrigley Field ...

Help celebrate National Ag Day

As another growing season approaches, Tuesday has been set as National Ag Day by the Agriculture Council of America. The council designates the week it falls within as National Ag Week. One goal of National Ag Day is to recognize the contribution agriculture makes in the lives of all of us. The council sponsors and encourages programs during National Ag Week that help Americans: • Understand how food and fiber products are produced. • Appreciate the role ag plays in providing safe, abundant and affordable products. • Value the essential role of agriculture in maintaining a ...

Fur Ball is tonight at FD Ford Toyota

It would be hard to imagine 21st-century America without pets. They contribute wonderfully to the happiness and well-being of people of all ages. In a perfect world, every pet would at all times be a welcome and loved part of someone’s home. Unfortunately, reality falls short of that ideal. That’s why it’s important to our community that the Humane Society of North Central Iowa remains strong and grows even stronger. As with so many other worthwhile endeavors, achieving laudable goals depends in part on raising the money necessary to support the cause. For the Humane Society, ...

Road workers deserve our respect

There’s still snow on the ground and patches of ice scattered about, but the folks who fix our roads are starting their yearly efforts. In Fort Dodge, we have already seen the Public Works Department crews filling the potholes that erupted in city streets during the brutal winter weather. What is perhaps the year’s biggest project, the repairs to Veterans Bridge on First Avenue South, is geting underway. A major street reconstruction job at North 21st Street and 2 1/2 Avenue North will soon start. In the coming days and weeks, more projects will begin on city, county and state ...

Community Health Center steps in to provide dental care in Eagle Grove

Residents of Eagle Grove recently got some bad news which was quickly supplanted by some good news on the very same topic. The bad news: Dr. Mysty Shaver announced that she would be closing Eagle Grove Family Dentistry. Ordinarily, that would be a tough blow because it is hard to recruit a dentist, especially in a small city like Eagle Grove. However, it did not turn out to be a tough blow after all. On the very day that Shaver closed her office, the Community Health Center of Fort Dodge signed a contract to purchase it. For at least a little bit of time, it looked like the dental ...

Public notices must remain in newspapers

Some members of the Iowa Senate do not think that public notices published in newspapers remain relevant and necessary. A bill filed in the newly formed Technology Committee just over a week ago moved through committee in two days and last week moved through the Ways & Means Committee in one day. Senate File 546 would result in removing a major component of government transparency. This legislation would require legal notices to be posted on a website controlled by the very government legal notices are designed to oversee and notices would not be required to published in a local ...