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Storm sewer contract awarded in Fort Dodge

Another project has been added to the long list of work that has drivers navigating a maze of orange road cones throughout Fort Dodge. On Monday, the City Council awarded a contract for replacing a troublesome storm sewer along South Seventh Street that has caused two sinkholes in the last couple of years. Rasch Construction, of Fort Dodge, was awarded a $98,155 contract for the job. In a report to the council, City Engineer Austin Morrow wrote that in the spring of 2024 a sinkhole opened in Seventh Street between Fourth Avenue South and Meriwether Drive. The cause was traced to a ...

An affordable getaway

The members of the Iowa Barn Foundation (IBF) aren’t given to flights of fancy, but they’re immodestly calling this fall’s 26th annual statewide barn tour, “the world’s largest.” The tour showcases restored, historic barns across Iowa, including the 105-year-old barn near ...

From our files: September 2011

Generations of service

STRATFORD — Every time Grant Carlson responded to a call for the Stratford Fire and Rescue Department, he was carrying on a family tradition. Sixty-four years ago to the month, the Stratford community mourned the death of Carlson’s grandfather, Carl Harold Larson. Like Carlson, Larson was a long-time chief for the Stratford volunteers. On Sept. 21, 1962, he responded to a fire in a pile of lumber at the co-op elevator. The fire had been almost entirely put out when Larson collapsed, according to news reports at the time. Fellow firefighters began immediate life-saving measures, but ...

'It's about doing things that are good for the land'

The Iowa Natural Resource & Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund has been in place since it was added to Iowa’s Constitution in 2010. It was established to provide over $200 million annually to improve soil and water quality, improve and increase outdoor recreation and help provide economic ...

Conrad may become FD city attorney

By BILL SHEA bshea@messengernews.net A former Fort Dodge city councilman may be returning to the Municipal Building in a new role. The council will consider appointing former Councilman Neven Conrad to serve as city attorney when it meets tonight. The council will meet at 6 p.m. today ...