Area young people will help share a tale as old as time, as Webster City Community Theatre presents Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast Jr” this summer. Directors Lindsay Henderson and Dane Barner, along with assistant director Karina Murray, conducted auditions April 7 and 8. The cast, ...

Rebecca Kenville, Hank Christeson, Alondra Johnson Santana and Caroline Ehn, from left, belt out"The Start of Something New" during a rehearsal for "High School Musical," Webster City High School's spring musical. The shows are Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, ...

The City Council of Webster City held a public hearing Monday on its fiscal year 2025 budget. There being no questions, comments or objections to the budget from the public — written or oral — the proposed budget passed. The companion, updated five-year capital plan was approved at the ...

The Enhance Hamilton County Foundation has announced that it awarded $26,727.55 in Hamilton County SEED Catalyst Fund grants for first quarter 2024 to the following recipients: Melanie Reisinger, Ellsworth — daycare startup — $1,438.79; Stanhope Housing, Stanhope — roofing — ...

The Webster City Parks & Recreation Commission will meet Thursday, April 18, in the Sampson Room at Fuller Hall, 625 Bank Street, Webster City. This meeting begins at 5:15 p.m. On the agenda are budget and Fuller Hall reports, the East Twin Park shelter, the West Twin Park sculpture pads, ...

FORT DODGE — A sentencing hearing that sent a convicted killer to prison for decades briefly turned into a fracas of yelling and shoving when the slain man’s father suddenly rushed across a Webster County courtroom toward the defendant Monday morning. A large group of law enforcement ...