The Fort Dodge City Council on Monday approved an agreement that would allow the use of money from the new emergency medical services tax to be spent on buildings, personnel and vehicles. That agreement is expected to be considered by the Webster County Board of Supervisors today. In ...
As the 2025-26 school year moves into its latter stages, preparations for 2026-27 are moving along for the Fort Dodge Community School District Board. The group approved ratifying agreements Monday with the bus drivers bargaining unit, the education association, and administrative and professional support staff. Paraprofessional contract agreements were ratified at the Feb. 23 session. “We have a good relationship with the groups we work with on these processes,” Superintendent Josh Porter said. “We want to give a huge shoutout to each of them for the work they did in getting ...
A second way to get vehicles in and out of Harlan and Hazel Rogers Sports Complex will be developed. A road connection behind the Mini Majors section of the park will eventually take traffic past the soccer fields to 160th Street. “The other positive impact of placing the outlet to ...
A few Fort Dodge residents fed up with what they described as constant late night rowdiness and even gunfire around the Fourth Street Depot asked the City Council on Monday to take a hard look at the establishment. “We believe this meets the criteria of a public nuisance,” said Emily Jensen, who lives with her family in that neighborhood. She told the council that they have to contend with late night shouting, fighting, general drunken behavior and people urinating, defecating and vomiting in their yard. She said there has also been gunfire, most recently on Feb. 15. Jensen told ...
A pair of robots will be taking over some of the routine maintenance of the driving range at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course soon. Golfers won’t be seeing any androids that look like they came out of a science fiction movie. But they may see a couple of machines working around the range without any people controlling them. The City Council on Monday purchased a robotic mower and a robotic machine that will pick up the golf balls strewn around the range. In a report to the council, Assistant Recreation Director Hannah Angstrom wrote that the robotic mower will be automatically ...
Editor's note: This feature first ran in a special Farm News publication called Barns of Iowa, published Nov. 28, 2025. KAMRAR — “I wish this old barn could talk,” said Wayne Blue of the barn on the home farm where he has lived most of his life. That old barn would indeed have some ...
