editor@messengernews.net -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson
A Fort Dodge city snow plow barrels west down Fifth Avenue South to help remove the latest snowfall on Thursday. -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson
Traffic moves west along Webster County Road D20 Thursday as snow blows across the roadway. Several accidents were reported throughout the day in the region. A vast majority of the crashes were minor, according to the Iowa State Patrol. -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson
Snow blows across Webster County Road D20 Thursday afternoon.
-Messenger photo by Chad Thompson
A Fort Dodge city snow plow barrels west down Fifth Avenue South to help remove the latest snowfall on Thursday.
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A combination of long exposure and motion creates something a little different as the Sun Country Airlines plane carrying a previous Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight turns on the apron at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport. The City Coucil will review the airport s budget tonight.
The proposed budgets for the Fort Dodge Regional Airport and the city’s parks and recreation programs will be reviewed tonight by the City Council.
The council’s budget workshop will begin at 5 p.m. It will be a virtual meeting.
The airport and the Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department generate some revenue to help pay for their operations, reducing the need for property tax dollars to fund them. Fees that people pay to join sports leagues, play golf or get into the aquatic center are sources of revenue for parks and recreation. The airport gets revenue from landing fees, rent from businesses that are located there and from farmland that’s part of the airport campus.
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Josiah Telander, 11, at left, along with his brother, Jeremiah Telander, 7, of Kasson, keep busy with a video game as they wait for their grandfather, veteran Larry Fatka, of Paton, to return from the 18th Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight in May 2019 at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport. United Express flights from Fort Dodge to Chicago will be offered beginning March 1. -Messenger file photo
An empty Fort Dodge regional Airport awaits visitors in November. United Express flights from Fort Dodge to Chicago will begin March 1.
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Josiah Telander, 11, at left, along with his brother, Jeremiah Telander, 7, of Kasson, keep busy with a video game as they wait for their grandfather, veteran Larry Fatka, of Paton, to return from the 18th Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight in May 2019 at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport. United Express flights from Fort Dodge to Chicago will be offered beginning March 1.
-Messenger photo by Elijah Decious
Residents and staff wave at cars in a short parade near the entrance of Friendship Haven. The community wave was part of efforts from the retirement home to show love to residents who have been more socially isolated since the pandemic began. -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson
Harper Lovin, 14, left, and Kaylin Willingham, 14, granddaughters of the late Rev. Al Henderson, hold a sign together inviting the community to stop by for pumpkins, apple cider and doughnuts on Friday. It was the familyâs way of paying it forward for the overwhelming report they say they received following the death of Al Henderson in October 2019.
Having lots of passengers will help keep United Express flying here
Dec 19, 2020
United Express is bringing passenger jet service back to the Fort Dodge Regional Airport next March. It is up to the rest of us to make sure that service stays at our local airport.
To do that, local people need to make an effort to use that airline and the airport for all their flight needs. United Express is committed to flying 50-seat jets to and from Fort Dodge. If the community keeps those seats full, the airline will have lots of incentive to keep flying to and from our hometown.