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Lincoln High School graduates hold 68th reunion

Webster City from the Lincoln High School class of 1958 met on August 27 for their 68th class reunion. Those attending include, front row: Sherryl Asklund Rairdin, Marlene Wearda Jackson, Shirley Rinehimer Juon and Nancy Holkan Pilcher. In the second row, from left to right are Lois Hicks Rodwell, Paul Fugate, Sandy Wiggins Short, Wayne Johnson, Carol Wagner Wells, Sally Ladd Wilson and Ann McMurray Balderson. During the day, the class toured The Elks, the Jane Young House and Fuller Hall. Another reunion is being planned for June 2027.

King band to move

The Karl L. King Municipal Band will be moving out of its home of some 25 years in the Fort Dodge Public Library because of upcoming renovations to that building. The band has been offered space in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S., but the details of the potential move are still being resolved, according to Assistant City Manager Ryan Maehl. “Obviously, moving and changing isn’t something everyone likes,” he said Library Director Rita Schmidt said the band has been asked to move out of its room in the library by January with the expectation that renovations will ...

Birthday Club opens Friday night at WCCT

Tickets are now on sale for Webster City Community Theatre’s upcoming production of Birthday Club, a comedy by playwright Phil Olson. Birthday Club follows five women who gather to celebrate their birthdays together. But between the cake, candles and birthday wishes, their gatherings reveal ...

Webster City remembers 9/11

On Friday, two commemorative exercises were held in Webster City to mark 25 years since four airliners were commandeered on September 11, 2001 and flown into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and another target which was thought to be the U.S. Capitol or White House. Public officials, ...

Stratford mourns death of former fire chief

STRATFORD — They are the unsung heroes of every community. Across rural Iowa, where small towns are like islands in a massive sea of corn and soybeans, where the roads stretch out long and hard from any hospital or emergency room, volunteer fire and rescue departments are a life-line for ...

Generations of service

STRATFORD — Every time Grant Carlson responded to a call for the Stratford Fire and Rescue Department, he was carrying on a family tradition. Sixty-four years ago to the month, the Stratford community mourned the death of Carlson’s grandfather, Carl Harold Larson. ...