October 2026

The Humboldt girls' cross country team finished runner-up to Clear Lake in the North Central Conference meet held on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at Maynes Grove north of Iowa Falls.

Clear Lake was the team champion with 45 points. Humboldt had 68 and Forest City was third with 73 and Garner-Hayfield/Ventura fourth with 142.

Humboldt's Aubry Fisher was second overall in 19:45. Jade Malo was third in 19:45 and Avery Fisher fourth in 19:46. Meghan Korbel of Charles City was 1st in 19:12.

Humboldt's boys placed ninth in the team scoring. Clear Lake was the team champion with 43. Forest City was runner-up at 62.

Henry Kramer finished 17th overall in 18:15 to pace the Wildcats. Isaac Fowler was 57th in 20:48 and Bentley Rodgers was 60th in 21:01.

Next action in the state qualifying meet in Clear Lake on Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. The top 3 teams and the top 15 individuals advance to the state meet in Fort Dodge on Oct. 31.

The Humboldt High School cross country team has been assigned to a state qualifying meet in Clear Lake on Oct. 21.

The girls' race will start at 4 p.m., followed by the boys' race at 4:30. Veterans Memorial Golf Course will be the site for the race.

Each school is permitted a maximum of seven entrants. All competitors will be counted as they finish the race. In order to qualify for state as a team, five runners must finish. The first three teams, plus the first 15 individual place winners will qualify for the state meet.

The Class 3A state championships will take place on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Lakeside Golf Course north of Fort Dodge.

Other schools in the meet in Clear Lake include: Algona, Charles City, Decorah, Des Moines Christian, Hampton-Dumont-CAL, Iowa Falls-Alden, Mason City, Nevada, Spencer, Storm Lake, Webster City and host Clear Lake.

By APRIL KELLEY
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors had a short agenda with only the joint drainage meeting at 10 a.m. on their agenda for Monday, Oct. 5 as well as approval of more than a dozen manure management plans.

They did hear from one local resident, Gary Naeve. Naeve wanted to discuss further his concerns involving the gravel road in front of property he owns in the county, not the road in front of his residence as had been reported last week in the Humboldt Independent.

The Humboldt Independent staff strives for accuracy and regrets any inconvenience this may have caused Mr. Naeve.

Naeve stated he wished to discuss the use of dump trucks in the county and his opinion that they should be exchanged for belly dump trucks.

“You can haul three loads in what your straight trucks carry,” Naeve said.

The county has two chassis they have purchased that they are waiting to be fitted with snow removal equipment.

Avery, Jade and Aubry finish 1-2-3

Avery Fisher, Jade Malo and Aubry Fisher finished in the top three in consecutive order to lead the Humboldt girls’ cross country team to the team title of the Pocahontas Area Invitational held last Saturday, Oct. 4.

Avery finished in 19:20. Malo clocked 19:33 and Aubry ran 19:48. Macey Rodgers was also ninth in 21:45 for the Wildcats.

Humboldt’s boys finished sixth as a team as they were again led by Henry Kramer, who was fifth in 17:48. Bentley Rodgers was 38th in 20:09.

“The boys showed focus and were not afraid to go to a hard place. They took huge amounts of time off from last year. Henry had what might be his best high school race. He was aggressive from the start,” Wildcat coach Joel Hoogland said.