The annual ritual of high school graduation is upon us. On Sunday, several area schools, including St. Edmond Catholic School, Manson Northwest Webster High School, Southeast Valley High School, Humboldt High School and others, will hold their commencement exercises. Each ceremony is a ...

Have you ever wondered how the current community of Fort Dodge came to be? Or what happened around here decades and even centuries ago? There is one man in town who can answer many of those questions from memory. And if he doesn’t know the answers right away, he knows where to find a ...

During the month of May, it is worth noting that it is a time to celebrate an important meat product. May is Beef Month. For many of us, every month is a time to partake of a food that ranks high on the list of culinary favorites. It’s no secret that Americans have a love affair with ...

Hundreds of blue-clad graduates filed into Hodges Fieldhouse on the Fort Dodge campus of Iowa Central Community College Friday to the traditional strains of “Pomp and Circumstance.” Friday’s double-header of commencement ceremonies marked the pinnacle of achievement that the graduates ...

When a 737 roared into the sky above Fort Dodge Regional Airport just as the sun began to brighten the horizon this morning, one of the most unique and heartfelt tributes to area veterans was back in action. There were about 120 veterans aboard that plane, going to Washington, D.C., for free ...

There is perhaps no profession that is so intertwined with an individual’s life as nursing is. Nurses are there to help bring new life into the world. They administer the vaccines, and help people get through all the various illnesses and injuries of a lifetime. And at the very end, nurses ...