Des Moines-based jazz singer Max Wellman, who first appeared with the Fort Dodge Area Symphony in 2013, will perform several popular holiday tunes, including “O Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bells,” “Toyland” and “Silent Night.” Wellman and vocalist Katy Merriman will sing duets to ...

Shop, play and feast at the Fort Museum and Frontier Village Opera House this holiday season during the second annual A Dickens of a Christmas on Saturday. Come join the many “Shoppe Keepers” where guests will discover countless treasures as the marketplace captures Christmas during the ...

By Hailey Brueschke editor@messengernews.net Hawkeye Community Theatre brings fun, family Christmas entertainment to life this holiday season. The theatre’s upcoming show, ‘‘Mother Goose’s Golden Christmas,’’ bears very little resemblance to the traditional ‘‘Mother ...

There’s nothing like the first day of a week of vacation. The possibilities of what to do stretch out in front of you and it seems like it’s going to last forever. (Cue the sound of birds happily chirping) Then the reality of your vacation plan — the Great 2019 Garage Cleanout and ...

The annual It’s a Chocolate Thing fundraiser for Gateway to Discovery will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 400 S. 13th St. The fundraiser benefits the Gateway to Discovery recovery home, which is a residential support program designed to help heal women ...

There will be a night of “good times for a great cause” on Thursday evening at Fort Frenzy’s Cardiff Center, 3232 First Ave. S. A Night for LifeWorks is the annual fundraiser for the LifeWorks Charitable Foundation. “The mission of the LifeWorks Charitable Foundation is to raise ...