The Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education has appointed Matt Moritz to fill the vacancy on the board left from the death of board member Steve Springer on May 31. Moritz, a physician’s assistant at Iowa Specialty Hospital Clinic in Fort Dodge, was appointed and took his oath...
Fort Dodge voters will have the opportunity to give their two cents on a new revenue purpose statement for the use of the state penny revenue the Fort Dodge Community School District receives. On Monday night, the FDCSD Board of Education passed a resolution to put a public referendum to...
June 8, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- Fort Dodge Senior High is proud to announce the 2020 Senior Athletic Award Winners. The Mitch Sterns Outstanding Wrestler Award recipient is Carson Taylor. Taylor was active in wrestling and lettered all four years of his high school career. He was a State-wrestling qualifier...
The Central Iowa Metro League announced strict fan guidelines for the 2020 baseball and softball seasons on Friday. According to a published document released by CIML commissioner and former Fort Dodge Senior High athletic/activities director Tom Kinseth, the league will distribute two tickets to each player and coach in uniform....
June 5, 2020, Fort Dodge, IA- Pursuant to Iowa Code 279.6, the Fort Dodge Community School District School Board publishes this notice of its intent to appoint a person to fill a vacancy on the Board. Eligible electors of the Fort Dodge Community School District have the right to file...
When the COVID-19 global pandemic brought the school year to an abrupt halt in mid-March, Fort Dodge Senior High physical education instructor Blake Utley thought his half-marathon class was likely done as well. Utley challenged the group to stay the course for their own peace of mind, though. Rather than...
Aaron Davidson is right where he wants to be. Born and raised in Fort Dodge, Davidson made his return to the Fort Dodge Community School District this year, and he couldn't be happier with the opportunity to return home. "I am a Fort Dodge kid,'' said the 1995 St. Edmond...
The construction on the Fort Dodge Community School District's Central Office project at 109 N. 25th St. is right on track, and maybe even a little ahead of schedule, Superintendent Jesse Ulrich said during a special school board meeting on Thursday evening. The main purpose of the special meeting was...
"You don't have to be a great artist to be a good cartoonist." That was the lesson children's book author and illustrator Mike Artell shared with several Fort Dodge Community School District elementary students during a virtual author visit on Thursday morning. Typically in the springtime, the FDCSD brings a...
The Fort Dodge Community School District Board of Education paid tribute to one of its own — board member Steve Springer, who is battling esophageal cancer — by dedicating a school bell in his honor. “Steve has made service to others an art form,” board President Stu Cochrane said during...
