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Hardin County Farm Museum show demonstrates and shares our Agricultural past

If you are looking for some good old fashioned fun, filled with free activities for the whole family, plan to come to the 2026 Threshing Festival and Power Show on Saturday, July 25. The event will be hosted by the Hardin County Farm Museum on location north of Eldora. There is no admission to the show and all activities are free. The 2026 Threshing Festival and Power Show will feature all makes and models of tractors. Exhibitors are also encouraged to bring hit & miss engines, machinery, old trucks and whatever power equipment that anyone…

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The third annual Mike Baker Memorial was held on Saturday night at the Hamilton…

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This week and last week there have been a number of meetings with the Webster City school officials. Some have been with architects, meetings they call SPARK meetings where they are beginning to develop a plan for upgrading, redesigning or rebuilding the Webster City High School. There was a school board meeting this week…

It’s summer vacation season. At fast food joints and c-stores you can see the vacationing families…

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The weather in many areas has been very inconsistent this summer. One day it’s warm, the…

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America at 250: A journey through time, told through our communities

What began as an experiment in self-governance rooted in personal freedom and liberty has grown into the world’s most unique and important nation: the United States of America. Here, we can, within the boundaries of the law, do, say and think what we wish; we can worship as we choose; we have taxation with…

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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…

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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

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…

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…