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City gets serious about vacant properties throughout the community

You see it all over town: in downtown commercial properties, in vacant industrial buildings, in residences. Webster City has too many vacant buildings. The community’s Development Director Ariel Bertran confirms the city is presently investigating as many as 57 homes that appear to be ...

Council approves the city’s second big residential development

Only months after a 218-unit apartment development was approved for Webster City’s west side, a revised plat and amended Planned Residential Development document, approved by City Council Monday night, will now guide a second large project known as Lynx Development No. 2 on the southeast ...

Cub and Boy Scouts will host an open house May 15 at West Twin Park

Local Cub and Boy Scouts will host an open house on Thursday, May 15, at West Twin Park, 1100 Superior Street, Webster City. The event is from 4 to 7 p.m. This fun event is for all kindergarten through ninth-grade students who wish to learn more about Scouting. There will be food (hot ...

Sahai Family Foundation awards scholarships

The Sahai Family Foundation recently awarded two nursing scholarships to Kennedy Moore and AnnaMae Leverson. Pictured with the students are Dr. Sushma Sahai and Amy McDonough, Chief Nursing Officer at Van Diest Medical Center. Both students are second-year nursing students at Iowa Central ...

First reading on new vacant property ordinance is tonight

At the top of the City Council of Webster City meeting agenda tonight is a public hearing on a proposal to overhaul the city’s code pertaining to vacant buildings. Anyone who owns property in Webster City, whether residential, commercial or industrial, will be affected by the new ordinance ...

Open again

Madison Pingel, Webster Theater manager, sells the first tickets to Thursday’s opening night at the movie house in downtown Webster City to Brenda and Stephen Sinnett, of Webster City.