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Pat Rittscher is Woman of the Year

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Beta Sigma Phi Sorority voted Pat Rittscher its Woman of the Year for 2024, an honor given annually to mark the organization’s Founder’s Day celebration. A resident of Webster City since 1991, Rittscher is a wife, mother, grandmother and retired nurse, and has an outstanding record of ...

Family Summer Kick-off Carnival will be indoors; book sale canceled

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Due to the projected rainy weather forecast, the Family Summer Kick-off Carnival to kick off the Summer Library Program will be held indoors from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Kendall Young Library, 1201 Willson Avenue, Webster City. The scheduled Friends of the Library Pop-Up Book Sale is canceled ...

Ellsworth hosts Human Trafficking presentation

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ELLSWORTH — An opportunity to better understand the breadth of human trafficking in Iowa drew nearly 100 people last week to Trinity Lutheran Church in Ellsworth. Ray Fiedler and Paul Gardner presented a sobering 90-minute program on the serious — and growing — situation in the ...

Final Legislative Forum is Saturday at Iowa Central

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State Sen. Dennis Guth and state Rep. Shannon Latham will be back in Webster City Saturday for the third in a series of Legislative Forums sponsored in part by the Daily Freeman-Journal and hosted by Iowa Central Community College. The forum will run from 11 a.m. until noon in the Chelsvig ...

Into Ukraine

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Editor’s note: This is the first in a series exploring Webster City and Webster City Rotary’s connection to Ukraine. As you will read, the writer, Doug Bailey, is working from an intensely personal perspective. By DOUG BAILEY At the end of WWII the Northwestern border of Romania was ...