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Meet the candidates for Webster County recorder
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Editorial
The time has come to end Daylight Saving Time
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Lifestyle Briefs
Choral Society concert will focus on works of banned composers and poets
The Fort Dodge Choral Society will present an afternoon of choral music by composers and poets who have been banned through the ages. The concert will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Olaf Lutheran Church, 239 N. 11th St. Admission is by season ticket or $12 at the door.
Michael Charles will perform at Byron’s on Nov. 1
Joel Wernimont will perform at Fonda Arts Center on Nov. 8
Brown Bag Briefings at FD Public Library
News Brief
CDA meeting set for Nov. 12
The Catholic Daughters Court 216 New Member Initiation Mass will be held at 6 p.m. on Nov. 12 at Holy Trinity Church, 2501 Sixth Ave. N. (NOTE: change of location for Mass). Mass will be followed by dinner at the Corpus Christi Center, 403 N. Eighth St., a special presentation of Veterans Honor Quilts
Trick or Treat in downtown Fort Dodge
Lazy Ike gathering set for Saturday
Luminary Night Hike is Thursday
Obituaries
Marty H. Murray
Marty Murray, 71, of Lehigh, passed away on October 22, 2026, of congestive heart failure. Marty Howard Murray was born August 19, 1955, the second child of William A. and Esther I. (Knox) Murray. He matriculated through the Central Webster Schools and received his GED. He later graduated from Kirkwood Community College in Cedar…