The pink and purple home with tulips surrounding the entrance to the home is no longer. Last Tuesday, the city of Webster City removed the home, which had survived many years of entertaining, family life, laughter and love, finally had to be destroyed. The home, located at 1402 Willson ...
After three and a half years of editing The Daily Freeman-Journal, Jane Curtis has retired. Curtis began her journalism career in 1977, when she was first hired by the Daily Freeman Journal prior to attending Iowa State University where she received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and ...
The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church will be celebrating the new year with a Cross Over service on Wednesday night. The service will run from 10 p.m. to midnight, and will be held at the church located at 1000 Des Moines St., Webster City. Although specifically Catholic rites will be a ...
Grant Gibbons is the new publisher of The Daily Freeman-Journal. Gibbons had been the publisher of The Journal in New Ulm, Minnesota, and the Independent in Marshall, Minnesota, for the past three years before returning to this area. Gibbons is very familiar with Webster City and Hamilton ...
Constantine (Gus) Dermand, a World War II veteran, former business owner, councilman, mayor and graduate of the Lincoln High School class of 1943, passed away quietly last week. Dermand was living at Southfield Assisted Living apartments, where he died on December 22, 2025. The visitation ...
A local nonprofit dedicated to ensuring affordable housing throughout Fort Dodge is asking residents to don formal wear and a mask for a new fundraiser on New Year’s Eve. Heartland Hope and Homes will host a masquerade ball at the Cardiff Event Center at Fort Frenzy on New Year’s Eve ...