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Mooney named behavioral health director

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Community Health Center of Fort Dodge has named Rebecca “Becky” Mooney as its new behavioral health director. As a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, she provides mental health evaluation, diagnosis and medication management for patients while also leading and supporting ...

News of Record: April 25, 2026

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Student charged in Humboldt school fire HUMBOLDT — A student at Humboldt Middle School has been charged with setting a fire in the school. The fire was discovered at about 8 a.m. April 14 in a bathroom at the school, located at 1400 Wildcat Road, according to the Humboldt County ...

Attorney general’s office to provide opioid grants

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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said Thursday that her office has about $9 million from an opioid settlement to be distributed to communities in the form of grants. “I want to make sure every part of Iowa gets its share of that money,” she said. The new opioid grant program was one of ...

The hidden homeless of Fort Dodge: Focus on families, children

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When Fort Dodge residents refer to homeless people, they often envision single men living on the street or in a shelter with a substance abuse problem or mental illness. However, local experts note that such views are based on stereotypical overgeneralizations of homeless people. Randy ...

Happily employed

Local Business

WEBSTER CITY — There are not many who can say they have worked for 40 years for the same business. There are even fewer who can survive three transitions of ownership and also shift with the company during several moves. Mitch Young, shop foreman and master certified technician at Good ...