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Today is Gus Dermand’s 100th Birthday
Gus Dermand, World War II veteran, businessman, city councilman and mayor, was born in Webster City July 16, 1924. He’s spent all but three of those years in Webster City. He graciously recounted the memories of his long life with the Daily Freeman Journal for this article. A Webster...
Boone City Council Considering Bids for Utility Projects, Naming Rec Director
BOONE, Iowa—The Boone City Council will be holding their regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. at the Boone City hall and will give consideration to a couple of utility projects. One is the Lime Slaker Replacement Project. WRH, Inc. of Amana is the apparent low bid of more than $659,000 about $73,000 over the engineers estimate. Another would be a roofing project at both the Water Environment Station in McHose Park and the Water Works Plant northwest of Boone. That total bid from Black Hawk Roof Company from Waterloo is over a million dollars.
Webster City will study expanded rail freight service
A key asset Hamilton County brings to the Ames Regional Development Alliance is large plots of relative inexpensive, developable land. Such land in Story and Boone counties, the other members of the Alliance, is not as readily available, and considerably more expensive when it is. To position Webster City and Hamilton County for industrial growth, the City Council of Webster City gave the green light to a study that could lead to more and better freight rail service to existing and future industries in and near Webster City.
City Council of Webster City meets this evening
The City Council of Webster City will meet this evening in the council chambers of City Hall, 400 Second Street, Webster City. This meeting begins at 6 p.m. The council is expected to award a $467,100 contract to Peterson Construction for the Municipal Building HVAC System Replacement Project. The council...
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