This week City Manager John Harrenstein received a letter from Quest Site Solutions, confirming Webster City’s Gateway Industrial Park, the new and official, name for Webster City’s southeast industrial park, is now certified for development. Reflecting on the news, Harrenstein said, ...
NEW YORK — A poignant moment in the 1987 film “Broadcast News” may best describe the life of Fort Dodge Senior High graduate Ben Ahlers these days. Tom Grunick — played by William Hurt – asks Albert Brooks’ character, Aaron Altman, “What do you do when your real life exceeds ...
The earliest settlers into Hamilton County had a tough path to follow to find this part of Iowa. Travel was by water or by covered wagons. The indian tribes who had established communities in the area co-existed with the original explorers and by many accounts had a supportive ...
WINCHESTER, Va. — Before he was the father of our country, before he led Continental Army soldiers across an icy Delaware River, before he inherited his family's Mount Vernon estate in Northern Virginia, America’s future first president was just a kid named George. It wasn't until a ...
Few things affect day-to-day life like local government. It’s budget time again at City Hall, and you have another chance to be involved. What’s at stake? Police and fire protection, rates you pay for water, electricity, and wastewater, whether storm sewers will protect your property from ...
It was a night of philanthropy at its finest, as benefactors and donors, all invited guests joined together to learn more about what the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation— EHCF has done during the past year. But there were also the stories of those who want to do more, to give more. Darcy ...