Take a long admiring, look at your personal vehicle some time, and then think back on the last time you saw a train. The difference between the two is spectacular. You may have the biggest, most tricked out SUV or pickup and it still won’t stand a chance against a diesel locomotive if the ...

It won’t be that long before cooler weather becomes the norm rather than the exception — summer is drawing to a close. Even though the calendar shows another month of summer to be enjoyed, for students, vacation days are ending. All across Iowa, young folks are heading back to school this ...

Jim Reed, Ted Bodensteiner and all the other volunteers who make up Shellabration Inc. have pulled off another musical masterpiece. Last Saturday, thousands of people crammed into the intersection of Central Avenue and Ninth Street for this year’s Downtown Country Jam. They were treated to ...

When the folks in Jackson, Mississippi, turn the handles on their water faucets, water may or may not come out. And the city was under a boil advisory for about seven weeks, which meant if people got any water from their faucets they had to boil it before drinking it or cooking with it to get ...

Some of the young folks attending our schools are not progressing as well as they could be. That’s true even though the educators of the Fort Dodge Community School District do an excellent job. Some young people, however, need a little more special attention than can easily be provided in a ...

Printers are found in basically every home and business nowadays. Every day they spew out reams of words and numbers on flat pieces of paper. Newer devices that also are called printers are not limited to an output on flat pieces of paper. That kind of printer can make things that have ...