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Probe continues into Sunday fire on Corpus Christi grounds

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The cause of a fire that heavily damaged a building on the former Corpus Christi Church campus Sunday morning remains under investigation. No one was injured. The fire was in a structure with a smokestack between the church building and the former rectory in the 400 block of North Eighth ...

McCubbin, Mernka win primary election

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Todd MCCubbin and Dennis Mernka were the top vote-getters in the Ward 3 primary election for Fort Dodge City Council. They will advance to the general election. McCubbin received 33.4 percent of the vote. Mernka won 30.21 percent. Caleb Pokorny won 23.83 percent. Jeanette Moss won 12.34 ...

Litter … and a water heater

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Finding a bunch of the usual litter — various beverage containers, food bags, empty tiny liquor bottles and cigarette butts — along the Prairie River Trails Corridor probably isn’t much of a surprise. A water heater, however, and a broken cast concrete bird bath — that might be a ...

FDSH marching band earns grand champion honors

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ALGONA — Once the awards were announced on Saturday night, the Fort Dodge band went into a frenzy. The Dodgers brought home the grand champion trophy from the 77th annual Algona Band Day Festival. “I pulled them aside after the awards and they were screaming and yelling and some even ...