Kent Thompson
The walls came tumbling down, and it didn’t take that long.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 8, part of Humboldt’s history as a downtown came to a crashing end. Workers and machines from Midwest Construction Services of Fort Dodge, a sub-contractor for general contractor Sande Construction of Humboldt, demolished the Parley Finch buildings, 611-615 Sumner Avenue. Most of the...
The Trimark Physicians Group and Humboldt County Memorial Hospital (HCMH) will be looking for a new family practice physician, it was reported at Monday’s HCMH Board of Trustees meeting.
Dr. Theo Barley will be resigning from the clinic later this year, to pursue a practice opportunity in Clarinda, HCMH Chief Executive Officer...
Humboldt County will be getting rumble strips to alert traffic to oncoming stop signs, in an effort to slow traffic and reduce accidents at the county’s intersections.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the additions at nearly 60 intersection locations in the county.
The traffic safety...
With a little cooperation from Mother Nature, the Golden Egg should be visible by next week, and not buried under a snow bank. A nine-inch snowfall Sunday and Sunday night, the largest of the winter season, left a heavy blanket over the ground gearing up for spring on March 20.
That is the same day the Humboldt/Dakota City...
Humboldt County Sheriff Dean Kruger and Chief Deputy Sheriff Brian Ricklefs warn citizens to be aware of a number of phone and Internet scams that are being perpetrated.
Some local residents have been the targets of the schemes and a few citizens have even lost money because of it.
“We’ve been getting quite a few...
After some preliminary discussions, the Humboldt City Council is looking at relocating the retaining wall around the Sumner Avenue curve west of the bridge and making the sidewalk wider in that area for pedestrian traffic.
The council heard from Derek Johnson, professional engineer with Schlofeldt Engineering of Webster City....
