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Council to discuss new incentives for development

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Nearly everyone agrees Webster City needs more housing. Kading Properties is set to break ground this summer or fall on the first phase of a rental apartment community off Wall Street. A year ago, a revised plat for Lynx Development No. 2 off Edgewood Drive, was approved, with lots earmarked ...

All Cultures Equal (ACE) announces closure

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After more than two decades of serving the Webster City community, All Cultures Equal (ACE) has announced that the organization will officially close its doors on June 30. The final ACE food pantry distribution took place on May 15. ACE leadership shared that the decision comes after careful ...

A gift that has stood the test of time

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It was April 1913, not quite 50 years since the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. In Washington, D.C., ground had not yet been broken on the Lincoln Memorial, but in Webster City, a towering statue of ‘Old Abe’ was soon to become a fixture for every succeeding generation of ...

Expansion of a new nation started with trip along the Ohio

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Editor’s note: It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. Through these ...