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Iowa Central is first in the nation to offer Workforce Pell

The emergency medical technician program at Iowa Central Community College is the first course in the nation to offer its students a new form of federal financial aid. “I’m thrilled to announce that the Iowa Central EMT program is making history as the first approved Workforce Pell ...

Market Nights tonight focuses on food, back to school, and local shopping

Market Night tonight is the annual Back to School night, with a foam party to cap off the focus on children tonight. The Webster City Lynx athletes representing a variety of school sports will be on hand to talk with the younger students, allowing photos with favorite athletes, play ...

G’day

Sales Tax holiday begins Friday Iowa’s Annual Sales Tax Holiday will take place August 7 and 8, exempting clothing and footwear purchases that are under $100 from the state’s 6% sales tax and 1% local option sales taxes. The event is designed to encourage local shoppers, and lighten the expense of items needed for the school year. Many retailers in Webster City offer additional discounted items for during this annual event. Arts R Alive Sculpture Park tour tonight Arts R Alive will be hosting the 16th Annual Sculpture in the Park event at the West Twin Parks tonight. The ...

Theater Camp in rehearsal for Friday performance

The Webster City Community Theatre will be welcoming to their stage 29 young thespians who have been engaged in the Susan Andrew Summer Children’s Theatre camp this week. The performance of "The Great Zoo Escape," which has been cast, directed and memorized during the week, will begin ...

Turning Back the Pages of Time

1936 Boxing card is completed Preliminaries for eight round champ-Bout are carded. The card for the championship boxing match to be staged tomor­row night by Louis Nichols has been completed with the addition of Casey Jones vs. Gene Kirkpatrick and Dick Harvey vs. Bobby Shaw. Shaw is from Woolstock and the other three men from Webster City. These two matches have been added to the already strong card which will feature the eight round main event for the middle weight championship title of Iowa be­tween Dixie Taylor, Champion, of Waterloo and Ronny Malcolm, Challenger, of Jesup the ...

City Council renews Residential Tax Abatement program

By KOLLEEN TAYLOR The Webster City City Council approved a number of purchases and contracts in addition to addressing a public hearing during the meeting and setting another public hearing in September during Monday night's meeting. The public hearing on the Residential Tax Abatement program was approved by the Webster City City Council after a presentation by Ariel Bertran who gave a brief history on the use of this program. The 1993 residential tax abatement had about 100 projects which used the abatement, and the recommendation from the Planning and Zoning board was to ...