The Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance organized a Community Clean Up Day Wednesday. Volunteers met in the Walmart parking lot before being assigned to different cleanup zones. By the end of the afternoon, more than 93 bags of trash had been collected. The effort covered about 55 acres. ...
There are an estimated 50,000 miles of rivers and streams in Iowa. Larry Stone, of Elkader, has experienced many of those miles from the vantage point of his canoe. On Wednesday evening he described for a Fort Dodge audience the wonders to be found along those rivers and streams. They ...
The Webster County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement agreement and release on Tuesday between the county and the City of Otho. According to Webster County Attorney Darren Driscoll, there was a short-term dispute as to who was responsible for payment after a county road was damaged when sewer or water lines went through it. According to Driscoll, the contractor made an initial repair which didn’t take, so the county had to step in and pay for the repair so that it wouldn’t damage Webster County Road Department machinery. The road is North Highway Street in Otho, which is ...
From pharmacists to priests and politicians, 11th-graders from St. Edmond Catholic School recently portrayed a panorama of local historical figures at the Fort Museum and Frontier Village. Known as a “Living Wax Museum,” the project included approximately 60 juniors in an American ...
