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Runner explores Iowa, one county at a time MELANIE MERGEN, Globe Gazette FacebookTwitterEmail MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — He says it started in Mason City. Tyler Sullivan, of North Liberty, has been running across Iowa towns for the last six years. He’s run around and through towns in 84 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Back in 2015, Sullivan said his then-girlfriend lived in Mason City, where he traveled about every other week from the Iowa City area to visit her. “I was seeing counties I’d never heard of before,” Sullivan told the Globe Gazette. “So one day, I was just like, ‘Hey ... may...

Two supervisor positions contested in town board election Utica Township UTICA TOWNSHIP - Well politics seems to have gotten into the air this spring and Utica Township is no exception. Both town supervisor positions are contested in next Tuesday’s election. Perhaps, it was occasioned by the decision to not run for re-election by two long-serving members of the town board. Utica Town Chairperson Leonard Olson and Utica Town Board Supervisor One Stanley Stevenson chose not to run this spring. Organic dairy farmer Jim Wedeberg is running unopposed for the U...

cthompson@messengernews.net When Jeanine Nemitz, of Fort Dodge, was a child one of her chores was to clean the church her family attended. “I was trained as a volunteer from a very early age,” said Nemitz, a 1974 Fort Dodge Senior High graduate. “My family went to a small church (Assumption Parish in Coalville) and we would all take turns cleaning the church. That was my first exposure to how volunteers can make a difference. The little kids dusted the pews and as you grew older your jobs got bigger.” That volunteer spirit followed Nemitz into adulthood. As she grew older, she spent...