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News Brief

Frontier Opera House holding New Year’s Eve dance

Frontier Opera House, One Museum Road, is holding a New Year’s Eve Dance featuring Richie Lee and The Fabulous 50’s from 7 p.m. to midnight Sunday. Tickets are $25 per person or reserve a table for eight for $150. Ticket includes hors d’oeuvres, snacks and a midnight champagne toast. ...

1600 block of Second Avenue North to close

Beginning today and lasting approximately five days, the 1600 block of Second Ave. N. will be closed to through traffic, according to the city of Fort Dodge. Local traffic will still have access. Motorists are asked to be alert, reduce speed and use caution near this area.

Visit Fort Dodge gets state grant

Visit Fort Dodge Inc. has received a $10,000 state grant to help pay for a print and digital promotion effort. The money will help pay for increased accessibility for the Fort Dodge and Webster County Destination Guide. It will also help pay for a corresponding out-of-state digital ...

Santa to visit Pleasant Valley

Local kids will have at least one more chance to see Santa Claus before Christmas. Santa will greet people from noon to 2 p.m. today at H.C. Meriwether Park on 10th Avenue Southwest. His visit is sponsored by the Pleasant Valley Awareness Committee.

Operation Merry Mulch returns to FD

The Fort Dodge Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department will once again conduct Operation Merry Mulch, a way for residents to dispose of live Christmas trees. Trees may be dropped off in the parking lot of Oleson Park at the south end of 17th Street beginning Tuesday and continuing through ...