The Fort Dodge community will honor America’s veterans Monday morning with an outdoor ceremony in the shadow of the Albert Habhab Veterans Memorial Bridge. The bridge will be dedicated immediately after the traditional Veterans Day event, which for decades had been held at St. Edmond ...
The Messenger will not be published on Monday in observance of the Veterans Day holiday. Check www.messengernews.net throughout the weekend for breaking news. The Messenger will be published on Tuesday.
The Best Western Starlite Village Inn & Suites, an iconic Fort Dodge hotel, is getting a new name and a new focus. The property will cease to be a Best Western as of Dec. 2, and will be re-branded as the Crossroads Hotel and Event Center. “In looking at our hotel guest composition, we ...
The search is on for a new chief of the Fort Dodge Fire Department. After 36 years of service, Steve Hergenreter will retire at the end of February. “Fort Dodge Fire has been a big part of my life for decades,” said Hergenreter, who started with the department in 1989. “Finding ...
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 — 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 ...