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All in the family

Most of the time, the showroom at Fort Dodge Ford Lincoln Toyota is filled with shiny new cars and trucks waiting for their new owners. But for one day a year, that showroom becomes a family room for Deb and Casey Johnson and their incredibly large extended family — all 2,500 of them. The ...

Main Street celebrates Small Biz Saturday

While all the national chain stores in Fort Dodge will boast seemingly endless Black Friday sales and shoppers are sure to line up early for the doorbuster deals, Main Street Fort Dodge wants area shoppers to remember that the next day is a monumentally important sales day for locally-owned ...

‘Ahead of schedule’

GOWRIE — The River’s Edge Discovery Center project is “way ahead of schedule,” the Webster County Board of Supervisors learned during its meeting Tuesday morning. “The project is really coming along,” said Webster County Conservation Director Matt Cosgrove. “They got a lot of ...

‘Grief shared is grief diminished’

For nearly 25 years, Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services has been holding the A Time For Angels service of remembrance for the Fort Dodge community. The event is to bring people together during the holiday season when people’s grief can be at its greatest. The service will be at ...

Fun fine art

What’s a more perfect holiday gift than a personalized, one-of-a-kind piece of art? How about a piece that supports the Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association? The FDFAA is in the midst of its annual winter fundraiser for its programming and operating expenses. For a donation of $25, a board ...

Governor issues clemency for turkeys from Manson

MANSON — A pair of former Manson area residents were pardoned by Gov. Kim Reynolds Monday. However, they were not crooks. In fact, they are not even people. The recipients of the governor’s leniency Monday were a pair of turkeys named Freedom and Flourish who grew up on the Moline ...