The annual Afro-Latino Festival at Iowa Central Community College will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Student Resource Center on the Fort Dodge campus. The public is invited. The festival is held to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. It highlights cultures, ...
MAGISTRATE COURT WEBSTER COUNTY Monday Failure to appear for arraignment — David S. Dayton, 40, Fort Dodge, further proceedings to be scheduled. Possession of a controlled substance, third or subsequent offense — David S. Dayton, 40, Fort Dodge, preliminary hearing set for Sept. 24. Interference with official acts — David S. Dayton, 40, Fort Dodge, continued 180 days. Driving while license suspended — Lindsey A. Martin, 40, 1406 Seventh Ave. S., $250 plus surcharge, court costs; Aiden M. Meinhardt, 19, 203 K St., $250 plus surcharge, court costs; Sarah J. Brandrup, 53, Des ...
Another project has been added to the long list of work that has drivers navigating a maze of orange road cones throughout Fort Dodge. On Monday, the City Council awarded a contract for replacing a troublesome storm sewer along South Seventh Street that has caused two sinkholes in the last couple of years. Rasch Construction, of Fort Dodge, was awarded a $98,155 contract for the job. In a report to the council, City Engineer Austin Morrow wrote that in the spring of 2024 a sinkhole opened in Seventh Street between Fourth Avenue South and Meriwether Drive. The cause was traced to a ...
The members of the Iowa Barn Foundation (IBF) aren’t given to flights of fancy, but they’re immodestly calling this fall’s 26th annual statewide barn tour, “the world’s largest.” The tour showcases restored, historic barns across Iowa, including the 105-year-old barn near ...
STRATFORD — Every time Grant Carlson responded to a call for the Stratford Fire and Rescue Department, he was carrying on a family tradition. Sixty-four years ago to the month, the Stratford community mourned the death of Carlson’s grandfather, Carl Harold Larson. Like Carlson, Larson was a long-time chief for the Stratford volunteers. On Sept. 21, 1962, he responded to a fire in a pile of lumber at the co-op elevator. The fire had been almost entirely put out when Larson collapsed, according to news reports at the time. Fellow firefighters began immediate life-saving measures, but ...
