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Voting is open now in the county auditor's office, and ballots are available to be mailed out as well, for the primary in June, to determine who will be on the general election ballots in November. -Messenger photo by Joe Sutter Webster County Supervisors Merrill Leffler, left, and Keith Dencklau vote in the primary on Monday morning.
It's his first week on the job. -Messenger photo by Hans Madsen Don Heck, director of the Iowa Central Biofuels Testing Laboratory, talks about their services during a meeting with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and a group of producers concerned about changes to the renewable fuels standards in the Iowa Central Community College Board Room.
With the governor's disaster declaration in place, Fort Dodge and Webster County have access to state aid for recovery efforts after the May 16 heavy winds. But thanks to cooperation between the city and county and Fort Dodge's response plan, there might not be any need for any state aid, Forbes said.
The HAWKS are one of this year's featured warmup bands for the Shellabration featuring Huey Lewis & the News. The other warmup band is the group Far From Innocent.
Jamie Johnson, former Webster County GOP chair, has joined the Trump-Pence presidential campaign as the Iowa coalitions director, the campaign announced Friday. Johnson said he joined the campaign efforts to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president, bring back American manufacturing jobs and to defeat radical Islamic terrorism.