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Southern Hamilton county meal program now accepting applications

Applications are now being accepted for the Southern Hamilton County Meal Program, a new community-driven initiative designed to provide nutritious, home-delivered meals to individuals who may have difficulty preparing or accessing meals on their own. Meal deliveries are scheduled to begin Monday, November 30, serving residents of Jewell, Stanhope, Stratford and surrounding rural areas. The program is designed to support neighbors experiencing a variety of circumstances, including recovery from illness or surgery, mobility challenges, temporary hardships, caregiving ...

Turning Back the Pages of Time

1936 Quill Club members write comedy and present it at regular club meeting The inexplicable infant” said to be Broadway’s 1925 “specialty, was presented at the meeting of the Quill club held at the G.S. Lane home last evening with Miss Margaret Linnan, hostess. This is the first play to have been written and produced by the club members. Plans of the club this year call for the writing and presentation of four plays. The part of John Euderby, the farmer, was taken by Miss Bertha Teal, and a “wonderful” farmer she was with the big rubber boots, old hat, chin whiskers etc. ...

Annual walleye stocking insures great local fishing at Briggs Woods Lake

Last Friday, 600 juvenile walleye found a new home at Briggs Woods Lake. For the fourth year in a row, donors gave $2,100 to stock the lake with walleye, ensuring that as we rake leaves and prepare for winter, good local fishing lies ahead both this winter, and next spring and summer. This year the funds came from the Doug Jacobson Foundation and Mid-American Energy. Funding for the 2027 walleye restocking project is already being sought, and grants written to insure the fifth year. Anyone can contribute to the project at any time through the Friends of the Hamilton County ...

McGowan says he’s ready to go

Republican Chris McGowan won election to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, which serves the western and north western quadrant of Iowa, including all of Hamilton County. McGowan, of Sioux City, was elected to represent the Fourth Congressional District, which includes 36 ...

Storm sewer work to insure road beds are not compromised

The large excavation shown here,just north of Highway 20 near Superior Street and Fair Meadow Drive, is part of a long-term effort by the City of Webster City to improve the capacity of storm sewers to deal with high levels of rain and run-off as experienced this summer and fall. Excessive standing water at this location could have compromised the underlying roadbed of both Superior Street and U.S. Highway 20.

The military not only provides path to future, but ties that bind

Laurie Epps is a doer. While recently retired from a career in the banking industry, her first experiences after high school encompassed a passion, that spread quietly between siblings and children. Laurie met her husband when she was in the Air Force and that union set a path that wasn’t the most conventional. Born to Larry and Jan Olmstead, Laurie Olmstead graduated from Webster City High School in 1977, then Olmstead, now Epps had different interests than most of her female classmates. “When I was in high school, I took auto mechanics,” she said. “I was the only girl in ...