For 69 years, the Stanhope Lions have taken the lead on making sure Watermelon Days in Stanhope is a great celebration. But it’s not just a project of the Lions Club, according to Grant Young,…
Holocaust message to be about kindness, compassion
The stories of the Holocaust are not easy stories to hear, but Brad Wilkening will be bringing a message about…
Turning Back the Pages of Time
National Sewer plant sold Dickey buys National Sewer Pipe Co. Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City, largest clay manufacturer in…
G'day
Day Okay Jazz Project Garden Party to be Saturday night. The Main Street park, located at 720 Second St. will…
Market Night suds keep the night and kids cool
Market Night last evening featured a refreshing night of suds and laughter, as the Kendall Young Library sponsored the special…
Fun with foam during Webster City Market Nights tonight
Ministerial Dunk Tank and Foam night returns It’s a fun night for all when the foam gets rolling through downtown…
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Local Sports
Rampage 11U a runner-up at state
The Webster City Rampage 11U baseball squad recently secured second place in the Silver…
FAST AND FURIOUS
CYCLONE STATEMENT
HUXLEY — A tough inning led to the Webster City softball team seeing their season come…
Webster City bows out at Ballard in softball
Local Columns
Be sure to attend your county fair
Times change. Even so, there are a few constants in life. One is the pleasure provided by the county fairs that continue to be a highlight of summer in Iowa. For as far back as anyone who now lives in this part of Iowa can remember, these summer festivals have been much-anticipated and much-enjoyed…
This week and last week there have been a number of meetings with the Webster City…
Listen, but also be heard
It’s summer vacation season. At fast food joints and c-stores you can see the vacationing families…
Summer vacation memories
The weather in many areas has been very inconsistent this summer. One day it’s warm, the…
Crankbaits in the summer
Editorials
Buffer Pilot Project just got better
There are times when a good idea can be made even better. That is the case with the expansion of the state’s Streamside Buffer Pilot Project. It uses a comparatively small amount of money to help farmers plant vegetation along the sides of waterways, with the ultimate goal of cleaning up water downstream. And…
What began as an experiment in self-governance rooted in personal freedom and liberty has grown into…
America at 250: A journey through time, told through our communities
Iowa’s lawmakers appear to be on the verge of raising the speed limit on the state’s…
Speed limit increase is a bad idea
March Madness has begun and I can truly say this is my favorite time of the…
Haymow Hoop Dreams
Business Briefs
G'Day!
Fireflies and bats to be focus of conservation program tonight The Hamilton County Conservation program will be held tonight from 8:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the Briggs Woods barn shelter. This is at the third level of Briggs Woods County park. The program theme is “Chasing Fireflies, bat counts and glow games. To…
VDMC welcomes general orthopedic surgeon Sreedhar Somisetty, MD
WCF Financial Bank partners with Kasasa to launch reward-based deposit accounts
Warland joins WCF Financial Bank
Lifestyle Briefs
July conservation program to be held Wednesday night at Briggs Woods barn
The Hamilton County Conservation office will hold a program at the Briggs Woods barn shelter from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. called Chasing Fireflies, Bat Counts and Glow games. To register for the program, go to www.mycountyparks.com For more information, contact John Laird at 515-832-9570 or 297-0423, or email him at jlaird@hamiltoncounty.org
Hamilton County Conservation to host program on Wednesday
Blood Drive at Van Diest Medical Center Thursday
Webster City Chamber Retail Committee meeting canceled for Tuesday
Letters to Editor
Is AI data center in future for WC
To the editor: As our local officials push forward with marketing the newly certified 478-acre Gateway Industrial Park, we as a community must ask a critical question: At what cost? We are hearing quiet whispers about prospective Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers eyeing our land. While “high tech investment” sounds appealing on paper, the…
Taxpayer offended by Assessors disrespect
Dislikes State Treasurer comments at levy appeal
Petitioners takeaways from the Van Diest Medical Center Tax Levy appeal decision
Obituaries
Melvin Timm
Melvin Miles Timm, 93, died on July 9, 2026, in Webster City, Iowa. He was born on June 10, 1933, in Blairsburg, Iowa, to Walter and Clara (McPhillips) Timm. He was the second of their six children. Melvin graduated from Blairsburg High School in 1951 and worked at a chicken packing plant before being…