The annual Afro-Latino Festival at Iowa Central Community College will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Student Resource Center on the Fort Dodge campus. The public is invited. The festival is held to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. It highlights cultures, ...
STRATFORD — They are the unsung heroes of every community. Across rural Iowa, where small towns are like islands in a massive sea of corn and soybeans, where the roads stretch out long and hard from any hospital or emergency room, volunteer fire and rescue departments are a lifeline for ...
STRATFORD — Every time Grant Carlson responded to a call for the Stratford Fire and Rescue Department, he was carrying on a family tradition. Sixty-four years ago to the month, the Stratford community mourned the death of Carlson’s grandfather, Carl Harold Larson. Like Carlson, Larson was a long-time chief for the Stratford volunteers. On Sept. 21, 1962, he responded to a fire in a pile of lumber at the co-op elevator. The fire had been almost entirely put out when Larson collapsed, according to news reports at the time. Fellow firefighters began immediate life-saving measures, but ...
The Iowa Natural Resource & Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund has been in place since it was added to Iowa’s Constitution in 2010. It was established to provide over $200 million annually to improve soil and water quality, improve and increase outdoor recreation and help provide economic ...
By BILL SHEA bshea@messengernews.net A former Fort Dodge city councilman may be returning to the Municipal Building in a new role. The council will consider appointing former Councilman Neven Conrad to serve as city attorney when it meets tonight. The council will meet at 6 p.m. today ...
