July 2025

Douglas L. “Doug” Fliehe, 68, of Clare passed away unexpectedly Friday evening, July 11, 2025 at his home.

The Humboldt baseball team moved within one game of the Class 3A state tournament by shocking the Algona Bulldogs, 17-9 in a Class 3A Substate semifinal round game in Algona on July 14. The triumph improved the Wildcats to 27-6 overall. They will play Boone (22-9) on Wednesday night, July 16, in a 7 p.m. substate final in Boone.

Humboldt edges Clear Lake in substate opener, 5-4
Humboldt rallied from a 3-1 deficit to edge the Clear Lake Lions, 5-4 in a Class 3A substate first round tournament game played at Clarion on Friday night, July 11. The game was moved from Humboldt due to wet grounds. Clarion has a new facility with all synthetic for a playing surface. The victory advanced Humboldt into a semifinal round game at Algona on Monday, July 14, 7 p.m. Algona advanced with a 10-0 victory over Charles City earlier on Friday in a game that was moved to the Rogers Park synthetic surface in Fort Dodge.

By PHIL MONSON
HUMBOLDT - It’s been literally a rocky path forward for contractors working on the 4th Avenue North water main improvement project in Humboldt this summer.

At the Humboldt City Council’s regular meeting held Monday night, July 7, the council approved payment of $222,378.28 to Wunsch Construction of Greene, to cover 40 percent of the overall costs. Prior to that, the council approved a change order for a net increase of $28,566.40.

Nick Frederiksen of ISG Engineering, was at Monday’s meeting to update the council on the project.

“Other than a few loose ends, the water main is in. They have been working on water service lines for the last two weeks,” Frederiksen said. “It’s been a little bit slow going. The amount of rock we have encountered is more than we had expected.”