Webster City News

Webster City native Jennifer Barringer has qualified for the U.S. Olympic team headed to Beijing.

Two Webster City kids got the surprise of their lives when they were exploring a flooded ditch and found an alligator staring back at them.

There are lots of scary things afloat in Iowa floodwaters, but a creature captured in Webster City could be the most frightening.

Mary Helen Smith, 74, of Webster City, died Sunday, June 29, 2008 at Crestview Senior Living.

The Webster City Community School Board voted Monday night to renew the contract of Superintendent Mike Sherwood and also granted a $6,000 wage increase.

Webster City residents now have a new mini golf course asDave Briese, owner and operator of the Little Greenhouse, located at 1544 Second St., has been working on creating Breezy Hill Mini Golf, an 18-hole mini ...

William Parry Hanke, 74, of Denison, Iowa died Monday, June 23, 2008 at his home, surrounded by his family.

Dean S. Olson, 80, of Webster City, died Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Hamilton Hospital.

Anyone is supposed to be able to get health-insurance coverage in Iowa. What's supposed to happen is different from what really happens, though.

Now that much of the floodwaters are down, members of the Webster City Park and Recreation Commission discussed the impact of the floods on the parks and trails during their monthly meeting on Thursday evening.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Webster City will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of its current location on Sunday.

" A Navy sailor from Webster City has been wounded in Afghanistan. Ben Nelson was hurt when his Humvee was blown up, relatives said.

Sandra Custis, age 48, of Story City, died Saturday, June 14, 2008, at the Israel Family Hospice House in Ames.

Visiting hours are 3:30 to 8 p.m. at Mary Greeley. Mary Greeley Medical Center The names of the following patients are published with their permission: Admitted June 3: Jennifer Wismer, Ames.

My heart ached for people as we drove around surveying flood damage Sunday. It truly ached.

Some business owners and lawmakers complained Wednesday about proposed rules for the state's new smoking ban, saying they treat hundreds of bars as restaurants and outlaw smoking in outdoor patio areas.

Richard H. King, 82, of Woolstock, died Saturday, June 7, 2008 at the Trinity Regional Medical Center.

SOWERS AND L. LARS HULSEBUS THE REGISTER Posted at 11:48 on 06/08/2008 JULI PROBASCO-SOWERS / THE REGISTER Jonette Gunderson of Webster City who, with her cats, is at the Motel 8 in Webster City.

Denny Read had a 5 percent chance of living five years. Those were the bleak odds Read faced after the colon cancer he was diagnosed with in 2002 spread to his liver.

Gladys E. Hollis, formerly of Clarion, passed into eternal rest on June 2, 2008 while living in Chesterfield, Mo.