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Council OKs agreement for animal control service

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Fort Dodge will continue to have someone available to respond to complaints about loose dogs and other animal problems, despite a pending lapse in the previous contract for those services. On Monday the council unanimously approved an interim agreement with Webster County Animal ...

Purchases, new position approved by FD council

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Some new municipal vehicles were ordered by the Fort Dodge City Council Monday. The council ordered two Dodge Durangos for the Police Department from Fort Dodge Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram for $84,486. Those will replace two older, high mileage patrol vehicles. The council also bought a Ford ...

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. ...