Editor’s note: This feature first ran in a special publication called Hometown Pride, published June 28, 2025, featuring people and organizations from Fort Dodge and the surrounding area who are making a difference in their communities. CLARE — If someone is in need of something in ...

CLARION — When Clarion-Goldfield-Dows Superintendent Joseph Nelson hired Joseph Granzow in August 2021 to teach high school and middle school choir, he told people Granzow “was a home run hire who was loved by everyone.” The veteran choir teacher, who retired at the end of last school ...

LYTTON — A collision with a semitrailer claimed the life of a South Central Calhoun High School student Wednesday morning. Caydn O. Ogden, 15, of Rockwell City, died according to the Iowa State Patrol and school officials. His death prompted the postponement of some homecoming week ...

WEBSTER CITY — The stories of the women from Iowa who were truly living the life of “Rosie the Riveter” during the 1940s will be presented on Saturday afternoon at the Wilson Brewer Park. “Rosie the Riveters of Iowa” will be presented by author Linda Betsinger McCann from Shell ...

Around the area HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Farmer’s Market is 8 a.m. to noon SATURDAY in the 600 block of Sumner Avenue, downtown Humboldt. LEHIGH — Lehigh Methodist Church, Lehigh, is holding a Second Sunday Supper from 5 to 7 p.m. SUNDAY at the church. The menu is chicken and noodles on ...