Students at Fort Dodge elementary schools had a special visit this week from Mike Artell, an author and illustrator of children’s books. That visit was courtesy of a group of Fort Dodge Senior High School alumni that has been a steady, but relatively little-known, supporter of the local ...

The calendar tells us that spring has arrived, and that also means the start of another season: road construction season. In Fort Dodge, we have already seen some of that as crews have been doing permanent repairs to various streets that had to be dug up to fix broken water mains. One of the ...

As another growing season approaches, we are in the middle of National Ag Week as set by the Agriculture Council of America. One goal of National Ag Week is to recognize the contribution agriculture makes in the lives of all of us. The council sponsors and encourages programs during National ...

A recent report on the economic impact of Iowa Central Community College contains a head-spinning array of big numbers, all of which are big in a positive way. But if you want to zero in on the importance the college has for Webster County and eight nearby counties it is helpful to look at ...

When there is a crisis, such as the deadly tornadoes that pounded south central Iowa on March 5, reaching out to help is a natural reaction for residents of our state. In the aftermath of the storm, volunteers rolled into the Winterset and Norwalk areas to help clean up and to provide supplies ...

For more than two centuries, the bedrock of our liberty and prosperity as Americans has been our right to know what is going on around us and to discuss it freely. Our nation’s founders believed that was so important that when they wrote the Bill of Rights, they made freedom of speech the ...