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1951
Condemn Jewell phone service
Resolutions condemning equipment used and service given by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., in Jewell were passed by the Jewell Commercial club at a recent meeting of the organization.
The resolutions, presented by Mayor G.O. Blake, stated that while the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., is contemplating raising the telephone rates, the service in Jewell is extremely poor due to the obsolete and broken down equipment.
The Commercial club also condemned the raise as being "unnecessary and inequitable" in relation to the service received. It was declared that the telephone users in the Jewell vicinity are entitled to and demand a new switchboard and other equipment designed to handle the battery type of service.
1961
Northeast Hamilton District approved
The formation of the Northeast Hamilton Community school district in Hamilton and Wright counties was approved at a special election yesterday by a vote of 755 to 107.
Total enrollment in the district is 673 with 167 high school pupils and 506 elementary pupils. In addition 27 pupils from Wright county not included in the district attend the Blairsburg Consolidated school on a tuition basis.
During the present year, high schools are operating at Blairsburg and Williams and an elementary school at Kamrar.
The district has an area of 138.2 square miles with a taxable valuation of $10,189,120.; Taxable valuation per pupil is $15,140.
The new district will become effective on July 1, 1962. On that date, Hamilton county will have the four school districts of Webster City Community, Stratford Community, South Hamilton Community and Northeast Hamilton Community.
Portions of Hamilton county are now included in Radcliffe Community and Roland Community and Sandness Rural Independent has voted to merge with Story City community on July 1, 1962.
1976
Council agrees to help pay for Yule decorations
Webster City will pay $1,250 each of the next two years for new Christmas decorations if the Webster City Chamber of Commerce or others agree to pay the rest of the cost, the city council decided Monday.
However that does not tell the whole story about city involvement in the $10,000 plyu decoration purchasing project. The city, which bought the decorations used for the past several years, will donate them to be used as a trade-in on new decorations.
The city spends an estimated $1200 to $1500 per year for electricity, installation and tearing down.
Work on turbine at city light plant
Bernard Welch, the plant maintenance foreman at the Webster City power plant and Jim Hagan, field representative for this area, work on replacing blades in the second stage of the city's auxiliary turbine.
The turbine will be taken apart and sent to Dallas where it will be reassembled. All power turbines of this kind are going through a fleet improvement program and are being updated, according to Assistant Plant Manager Ken Evans. Evans also stated that work will be completed in about a month.
2001
Community memorial service is tonight in WC
All area residents are invited to a memorial service planned for tonight to honor and remember the victims of last week's terrorist attacks. The service is planned to begin at 8:15 p.m. Friday at the Hamilton County Fair grandstand.
The ceremony will be led by Rev. Bill Kem and include patriotic music and a time to remember and honor the victims as well as heroes in the terrorist attacks.
2006
Conservation board speeds through agenda via cell phone
Whatever it took is what the Hamilton County Conservation Board did Wednesday night in order to hold a brief meeting with a quorum possible only via cell phone.
With board members Dave Taylor and Frances Enger in attendance at the conservation office at Briggs Woods Park, Board president Troy Keane ran the meeting over a speaker phone connected to his cell phone in a farm field.
Board members and conservation staff were most concerned about a quorum in order to complete the legal requirements necessary for the Briggs Woods watershed project. Following a brief public hearing, board members approved a $154,903 bid from Ingraham Construction, Webster City, for the lake project. Work is slated to begin Oct. 16 according to Executive Director Brian Lammers.