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Perin Machining Company purchased by Italian-based Bonomi North America

WEBSTER CITY — One of Webster City’s home-grown industries will be taking on an international flare as of today. Perin Machining Company, started by Webster City native Dave Perin, is now owned by Bonomi North America, which was effective at midnight June 30. Perin said he had not ...

Crime comedy coming to Hawkeye stage

Hawkeye Community Theatre will perform a production of “Kill The Critic” next week. The show will run Wednesday through Saturday. Written by Todd Wallinger, “Kill The Critic” is a comedy set in 1955. It is about an up and coming Broadway actor named Trevor Stanton whose attempt to ...

Two killed in Highway 20 crash

WEBSTER CITY — A two vehicle accident has claimed the lives of both drivers Wednesday near Webster City. The crash occurred shortly after noon when a car entered the westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 20, traveling eastbound. According to a press release from the Webster City Police Department, officers from that department and deputies from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the area in an attempt to intercept the wrong-way vehicle. Before emergency responders could arrive, the vehicle traveling the wrong direction collided head-on with a westbound ...

EMS leader to work in southern Webster County

A higher level of pre-hospital care will be more readily available to residents of southern Webster County when the new emergency medical service coordinator begins working there. Scott Richard, a paramedic, will respond with the Dayton Rescue Squad and Southwest Webster Emergency Medical Service when those units have calls involving the most seriously ill and injured patients. As a paramedic, Richard can administer drugs, interpret heart rhythms and provide other treatments that the emergency medical technicians in those two units cannot do. Richard outlined his plans to base his ...