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FDCSD registration now underway

Registration for the 2026-2027 academic year in the Fort Dodge Community School District is now open and will continue through June 30. New families enrolling in the district must provide the required documentation at the time of registration. This includes: • Guardianship documentation. • Immunization records or valid exemption form • Proof of residency with an address within Fort Dodge. District office hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. For additional information or assistance with the registration process, call the district office at (515) 576-1161 or ...

A lift up

Lursen honored at Governor’s Scholar Recognition Ceremony

Anna Lursen, a senior at St. Edmond Catholic School, was honored at the recent Governor’s Scholar Recognition Ceremony. Lursen has a 4.062 grade-point average. She has also already earned 77 college credits. She is a member of the National Honor Society and the Phi Theta Kappa Honor ...

Adding to the tribute

People traveling on First Avenue South in Fort Dodge may notice some construction activity on the east side of the Albert Habhab Veterans Memorial Bridge. That work isn’t another city infrastructure project. It is the first phase of a plaza that will be the capstone project in the ...

From our files: May 2011

Fort Dodge man arrested after his pickup hits rail car

A man has been charged with drunk driving and other traffic offenses after the pickup he was driving went off Kenyon Road and hit a railroad car. The crash happened just after 2 a.m. Saturday, according to Police Chief Dennis Quinn. He said the pickup failed to round the curve on Kenyon Road near South Eighth Street. The truck, a 2020 Ford F150, then went off the road and down a hill into the rail yard of the Canadian National Railway. There, it went over one set of tracks and hit the side of a railroad tank car that was parked on a parallel set of tracks. The driver of the truck, ...