It’s a new year, and it’s a year with changes already. At the end of 2025, we saw the retirement of the Daily Freeman Journal publisher Terry Christensen, and the retirement of the Daily Freeman-Journal editor, Jane Curtis. We saw the hiring of our publisher Grant Gibbons. And then ...
The Riverview Early Childhood Center and Webster City Day Care centers will combine services in 2026 according to a letter sent to past donors of the Riverview facility. The year-end letter carried the news that Riverview and the Webster City Day Care Center have reached an understanding ...
The Van Diest Medical Center —VDMC— was recently recognized as one of the top workplaces for women-led organizations. This is a national award that is determined through a confidential, research-backed engagement survey which was given to the employees of the medical center. “The ...
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 ...