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Local communities prepare to honor the fallen

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The Fort Dodge commemoration of Memorial Day will be held on Monday at Terry Moehnke Veterans Memorial Park. It will begin at 10 a.m. with patriotic music played by the Karl King Municipal Band. The ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. The park is on the north side of Badger Lake in an area ...

Clare Public Library to hold cookout

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CLARE — The Clare Public Library will host a summer cookout from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Clare Community Center. The menu includes sloppy joes, hot dogs, baked beans, chips, and dessert. The cost is $5 for adults, $4 for children ages 4 to 12, and free for children age 3 and under.

School bells rang early in Fort Dodge

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Iowa has long been known for its commitment to an outstanding education for its youth. In Fort Dodge that commitment emerged early. The town was founded in 1854 and the first school opened a year later. Here is a summary of Fort Dodge schools through the years, based largely on ...

America at 250: West Virginia born amid chaos of Civil War

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Editor’s note: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western ...

Denver flights return

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The passengers getting off a plane at Fort Dodge Regional Airport Thursday morning could see a lot of people waiting for them in the terminal. Undoubtedly, they were wondering why the crowd was there. When the sliding doors snapped open, allowing them into the main waiting room, they ...