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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...
Kevin Dresser will tell you he’s not satisfied with just making the top 10 in the NCAA national wrestling tournament.
The Humboldt native and veteran head wrestling coach of the Virginia Tech University Hokies, shared his thoughts with the Independent three weeks after his squad finished 10th in the NCAA Division I-A national...
It’s hard to believe, but the third annual Meals from the Heartland meal raising surpassed even the organizers’ expectations.
A total of 90,720 meals were packaged by nearly 500 local volunteers on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. More than $18,000 was donated toward the humanitarian effort, according to Pastor Gene...
School boards from Corwith-Wesley and LuVerne have decided to seek a sharing agreement with Algona.
During a joint meeting of the two boards last week (April 4) and after an hour-long public meeting in the Corwith gym earlier in the night, the two boards voted unanimously to seek a new academic whole grade sharing agreement with...
County drainage, secondary road matters and social services were the main topics of discussion during a morning-long session of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Monday in Dakota City.
The board approved the secondary road budget for fiscal 2014, the year beginning July 1, this year, and ending June 30, 2014.
The...
Humboldt and Dakota City residents will have a big bill to get rid of water, something that has been in short supply for the past 18 months.
During Monday night’s Humboldt City Council meeting, the council, acting as drainage district trustees for Drainage District No. 13A, heard from Drainage Engineer Rick Hopper with Jacobson-...
