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Principal: FDMS reading marks are up

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The Fort Dodge Community School District, striving for student literacy improvements, saw more impressive results at the board’s Monday meeting. Middle School Principal Shawn Chesteen presented the group with a look at what sixth through eighth grade students have been ...

The orphans of spring

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’Tis the season. All critters in the wild, great and small, are having babies. Sometimes, they leave those babies, then people find them. Then the trouble starts. That’s when Matthew Petersen, Iowa DNR conservation officer for Webster and Humboldt counties, gets involved. ...

Big projects, animal control agreement on council agenda

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The Fort Dodge City Council will consider awarding contracts for a couple of big projects when it meets this evening. The council meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. The elected officials will consider awarding a contract for the complete reconstruction ...

Former Eagle Grove officer sentenced

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EAGLE GROVE — A former Eagle Grove police officer will serve jail time after pleading guilty to sending obscene images to a minor. Colt Richardson, 28, was fired from the Eagle Grove Police Department in December 2024 after he was accused of repeatedly sending inappropriate Snapchat ...