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A meeting of the Ellsworth City Council will be held at 6:00 this Monday evening at the Ellsworth City Hall. The council will take a look at the empty lot at 639 Brinton and take […]

There will be a meeting of the Jewell City Council this (Monday) evening at 7:00 at the Jewell City Hall. This evening’s meeting will recognize a new member to the Jewell Fire and Rescue Department, […]

The May meeting of the South Hamilton Community School Board will be at 6:00 p.m. this (Monday) evening at the junior/senior high school board room in Jewell. This evening’s agenda will include the discussion of […]

The next meeting for the Stratford City Council will be Monday evening, May 12 at 7:00 in the Stratford City Hall. Monday’s agenda includes a public hearing to amend the 2025 fiscal  year budget. The […]

The May meeting of the Webster City Community School Board will be this Monday evening,May 12th at 6:00 p.m. at the school administration office at 820 Des Moines Street.  The board will make the consideration […]

The Wright County Board of Supervisors will meet Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. in the courthouse basement board room in Clarion. The board will meet with Jacob Hagan and Tyler Buman with AgriVia, an Ag […]

A new trial date for a former Eagle Grove Police officer has been set. 27-year-0ld Colt Allan Richardson is charged with dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to a minor and with sexual exploitation of […]

Another successful Friends of St. Thomas Aquinas School Ball was held last Saturday evening, May 3rd at the Parish Center in Webster City. The event is the annual fund raiser for the school adjacent to […]

A Hamilton County meat locker that has supplied meat to a BBQ restaurant in Boone County has been charged with two felonies for allegedly selling thousands of pounds of a mislabeled product. An investigation by […]

Christopher Mobley, a nurse at Van Diest Medical Center (VDMC), was presented the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses Tuesday afternoon in the hospital board room. He was one of 10 nominees for the annual award. […]

If you have an interest in photographing nature, you are invited to a program this Saturday,May 10th on a discussion and then some hands-on nature photography at Briggs Woods Park south of Webster City.Gary Welsh […]

There were no injuries in an accident at 4:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the 136 westbound mile marker of Highway 20 in rural Hamilton County. The Iowa State Patrol reported a 2025 model Volvo VNL […]

Two accidents were investigated over the weekend in Webster City. The 1100 block of Des Moines Street was the scene of a two-vehicle accident at 6:18 p.m. Sunday evening. Webster City Police reported a southbound […]

Fort Dodge Police on Thursday, May 1st filed a charge of Threat of Terrorism. 26-year-old Daniel W. Paivarinta  was arrested on the charge after information was provided to Fort Dodge Police via an anonymous source. […]

Two public hearings will be on this Monday evening’s agenda of the Webster City City Council. Meeting time is set 6:00 in the city council chambers. The first hearing is to amend the Code of […]

Another meeting for the Wright County Board of Supervisors will be Monday morning, May 5th at 9:00 a.m. in the downstairs board room of the Wright County Courthouse in Clarion. The board will appoint Ryan […]

The Stanhope man accused of setting a house fire last January has pleaded guilty in lighting the fire that destroyed the home of his family last January. 28-year-old Cody Christensen submitted a written plea of […]