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City of Webster City to pick up Christmas trees on Monday

The Webster City Street Department will be picking up Christmas trees on Monday, weather permitting. Trees should be placed at the nearest street corner prior to 7 a.m. on Monday as only one trip will be made through the city. Please remove all stands and decorations and place these treses ...

Filling the big shoes

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 ...

Historic home demolished after becoming a nuisance property

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 ...

Curtis retires from Daily Freeman-Journal

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 ...