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Home Base Iowa invites veterans to Fort Dodge

Throughout their military careers, veterans generally had a duty station that was their home base. Those veterans now have fresh incentives to make Fort Dodge and Webster County their new home base. Those incentives — which include everything from tax breaks on building a home to ...

Pomeroy Civil War veteran finally gets a headstone

POMEROY — There was no big fanfare. Only a handful of people gathered to pay their respects. Yet there was something profound about the simple ceremony at Pomeroy’s Union Cemetery on a chilly, late October morning when a Civil War veteran finally got a headstone. “We discovered that ...

At home in Homer: Lamb loves his work

Editor’s note: This feature first ran in a special publication called Hometown Pride, published June 30, 2024, featuring people and organizations from Fort Dodge and the surrounding area who are making a difference in their communities. HOMER — Don Lamb has never really been bored. ...

Education director visits FDCSD

Iowa’s top education official visited the Fort Dodge Community School District recently. McKenzie Snow, director of the Iowa Department of Education, visited three local schools Tuesday for a firsthand look at the district’s educational programming and new initiatives to enhance ...

UnityPoint Health to offer new family planning service

UnityPoint Health — Fort Dodge has received a Title X Grant from the Family Planning Council of Iowa. With this grant, UnityPoint Health — Fort Dodge is introducing a new service, Trinity Family Planning, which will open Nov. 18. UnityPoint Health — Trinity Family Planning will be ...