Editor’s note: The author gratefully acknowledges assistance for this article from Darlene Dingman, who suggested the topic, and the Chambers family, who generously shared stories and photos of their father’s life. Journalist Tom Brokaw coined the term Greatest Generation to describe the ...

FORT DODGE — Several years after returning home from World War II service in the Navy, Glenn Cue joined his local American Legion post. He’s been a member ever since. Cue, 102, has been a member of American Legion Post 191 in Webster City for 66 years. A group of local veterans ...

The Hamilton County Board of Supervisors is expected today to set a date to receive public comment on the master matrix for Summit Pork I LLP in Independence Township, which is immediately southeast of Webster City. Summit Pork is a limited liability partnership formed in Delaware with an ...

Why wait? That was the philosophy that compelled Leo Lanctot to enlist in the U.S. Army very soon after high school graduation back in 1963. “I wanted to beat the draft,” Lanctot recalled. “My older brothers were both drafted. One of them became an MP and the other was in a technical ...