The stories of the women from Iowa who were truly living the life of “Rosie the Riveter” during the 1940s will be presented on Saturday afternoon at the Wilson Brewer Park. “Rosie the Riveters of Iowa” will be presented by author Linda Betsinger McCann from Shell Rock. The ...

Hamilton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Rick Young showed real frustration Tuesday while discussing the county’s digital pagers. He is frustrated because the 80 pagers that have been issued to volunteer first responders in the county are out of service too often. That impacts their ...

Webster City’s Achtung! Polka Band is a year old this month. That’s 12 months since its first performance at last year’s Oktoberfest Hannah Pierson, who plays trombone, said a lot has happened in that year. “We started with seven musicians last year, but this year we’ve grown to ...

Hamilton County Supervisor Rick Young on Tuesday made a plea for individuals to run for public office. “How many people complain about the streets and roads?” he asked at the beginning of his report during the Board of Supervisors meeting at the Hamilton County Courthouse. “I feel ...

WRIGHT COUNTY — A Webster City man died Sunday evening when he was thrown from a car in Wright County that ultimately struck a utility pole and burned. Michael Mendez Mendez, 36, was a passenger in a car heading south on Wright County Road R-38 when the car dropped off the edge of the ...

The Doodlebugs are invading Webster City again, and that means you’ll start seeing them all over the city starting today. It’s the 39th year the motor scooters have made their way home, where they were built by the Beam Manufacturing Co. Not hard to miss, because they are bright red, ...