A step back in time
HOMER — Jazmine Meeks, of Duncombe, was sitting in the seat of a restored 1950 John Deere A Saturday morning at the 25th West Central Region Cockshutt & CO-OP Club Threshing Bee with her little sister Jennie Phipps, of Wolf. Jennie got to pretend she was driving. Meeks got to experience ...
FD council to consider school-police partnership
The Fort Dodge City Council will consider an agreement that would keep a police officer assigned to local schools when it meets this evening. The council will also consider a plan that would extend city water service to 18 residences outside the corporate limits in return for agreements that would ease the annexation of those properties in the future. The council will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. At least one police officer, known as a school resource officer, has been assigned to the Fort Dodge Community School District since 2017. “This ...
‘The river is our friend’
As a group of about 25 volunteers gathered at Richardson Landing along the Des Moines River Saturday morning for the annual Webster County River Cleanup, Webster County Conservation Naturalist Karen Hansen gave part of the day’s orientation. It concerned how many garbage bags they might ...