OTHO — Fire departments from throughout the area responded to a mid-morning Tuesday fire near Franks Auto Salvage, 2289 Gypsum Hollow Road. According to Otho Fire Chief Marty Smith, his department received the call around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday for a fire that was spreading quickly and was ...
A local congregation hoping to add onto its church building received a key approval on Tuesday. The Fort Dodge Board of Adjustment granted a special exception allowing the construction of a 3,469 square foot addition to the Prairie Lakes Church building at 200 Ave. O. The addition will ...
By KELLI BLOOMQUIST WEBSTER CITY — More than 600 students from three area counties - Hamilton, Humboldt, and Webster - converged on the Hamilton County Fairgrounds recently to learn about Iowa agriculture. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach welcomed fifth grade students from 10 local schools including Duncombe Elementary, Southeast Valley, and St. Edmond Catholic School for hands-on agricultural learning opportunities. During the four day event, students: Toured the Iowa Corn trailer Learned about flowers and soil with Smitty’s Lawn and Landscape, of Fort ...
People traveling on First Avenue South in Fort Dodge may notice some construction activity on the east side of the Albert Habhab Veterans Memorial Bridge. That work isn’t another city infrastructure project. It is the first phase of a plaza that will be the capstone project in the ...
A man has been charged with drunk driving and other traffic offenses after the pickup he was driving went off Kenyon Road and hit a railroad car. The crash happened just after 2 a.m. Saturday, according to Police Chief Dennis Quinn. He said the pickup failed to round the curve on Kenyon Road near South Eighth Street. The truck, a 2020 Ford F150, then went off the road and down a hill into the rail yard of the Canadian National Railway. There, it went over one set of tracks and hit the side of a railroad tank car that was parked on a parallel set of tracks. The driver of the truck, ...
