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The Whitesidewalls are coming to the Opera House in Fort Dodge

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FORT DODGE — The Fort Museum and Frontier Village welcomes The Whitesidewalls Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue from Minneapolis for its annual fundraising event on Saturday, Dec. 28. “Lead singer Dave ‘Swanee’ Swanson and the band are looking very forward to their visit,” said Deborah Davis, ...

The Gift of Sound

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Ask a Webster City High School student “who was Prem Sahai?” and they probably won’t know. Yet here, surely, is a man worth remembering. His son, Subash Sahai, a physician at Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City, offered this summary of his father’s life. “In 1956, Dad was an ...

Farm bill extension will continue farm programs, SNAP

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WASHINGTON — Congress finally approved a stopgap spending bill early Saturday that will keep the government open and provide a short-term extension on many programs, including the Farm, Food, and National Security Act, also known as the farm bill. The 118-page bill will extend programs in ...

Hamilton County Board of Supervisors will meet this morning

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The Hamilton County Board of Supervisors will meet this morning in the basement conference room of the Hamilton County Courthouse, 2300 Superior Street, Webster City. This meeting begins at 9 a.m. On the agenda are Clerk of Court and post election audit (Auditor Certification) ...

Auditions for ‘Of Men and Cars’ are December 29 and 30

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Auditions for “Of Men and Cars” will be held Sunday, December 29, and Monday, December 30, at 6 p.m. at Webster City Community Theatre, 1001 Willson Avenue, Webster City. Auditions will include readings from the script. Scripts will be available for three-day checkout at Kendall Young ...

The Gift of Sound

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In this season of giving, we may well ask what makes a truly meaningful gift? At a very minimum, it requires a giver motivated by genuine generosity and a truly grateful recipient. Here’s a story of such a gift, one of Webster Citians looking after each other. It began last spring, when a ...