Communities with a higher quality of life experience both higher employment and population growth. Our region’s elected officials and leaders understand this and have invested in improving the quality of life initiatives, such as trails, arts and culture, and other amenities. Understanding ...
In Webster County and all across America, teams of dedicated professionals stand ready to render medical assistance in emergencies. For some this is their career. For many others, it is a volunteer undertaking that is performed in addition to their normal employment. It’s impossible to ...
When a problem arises, action is needed to solve it. That is true if the problem is as simple as a dripping faucet or as complex and deadly as a wave of violence that is taking the lives of too many young people. That is why we are encouraged to see a new group coming together in Fort Dodge ...
As this rocky Iowa spring rolls into summer, you may find yourself spending time in the great outdoors enjoying nature. The beautiful meadows of dandelions or river bottoms full of Morrell mushrooms may distract you from a small, but potentially serious danger: ticks. Ticks are small ...
We are now in the midst of National Transportation Week, an annual celebration of all the things that keep people and goods moving in this country. By proclamation of President Joe Biden, the week began Sunday and will conclude Saturday. This celebration of the transportation industry has ...
Many of us remember a time when school safety largely consisted of monthly fire drills and a tornado shelter drill in the spring. Those remain very important. But, unfortunately, the number of potential safety threats facing students today goes beyond fires and tornadoes to scary things that ...