By BRANDON L. SUMMERS As the school day ended, a celebratory atmosphere filled each Fort Dodge school building. A year of challenges met concluded with the end of the Fort Dodge Community School District's 2015-16 school year Wednesday. Three weeks before the year started, Duncombe Elementary was closed, with its...
By BRANDON L. SUMMERS The Fort Dodge Community School District approved the fourth of eight planned bid packages Monday for the new Duncombe Elementary. The latest package requests bids for footings, foundation and structural steel, and is expected to cost $1,247,100. More bid packages are expected to come, Travis Filloon,...
By BRANDON L. SUMMERS Celebration filled Dodger Stadium as 242 Fort Dodge Senior High students in scarlet red gowns had the completion of their education formally acknowledged Sunday. Doug Van Zyl, FDCSD superintendent and the students' interim principal this year, provided the welcoming remarks. "This year has been a bit...
By: Matt Elsbecker, FDSH Athletic Director Dodger pride is built from our school spirit, accomplishments and tradition. Each year we honor Dodger athletes who accomplished great things while at Fort Dodge Senior High. This year, 5 individuals will be honored at the Dodger Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June...
By BRANDON L. SUMMERS Work continues on the new Duncombe Elementary School. The Fort Dodge Community School District board Tuesday approved a site package bid for the construction project. The district received two bids, with the lowest coming from Rasch Construction Inc. of Fort Dodge at $318,842. Hennigar Construction of...
May 24, 2016, Fort Dodge, IA- Five students from the Fort Dodge Senior High School theater department will perform in a collaborative inter-school medley led by a guest Broadway music director and choreographer at the 2016 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase. Nick Sanford, Raelinn Spears, Brayden Bell, Karisa...
By: Valerie Jergens, FDMS Assistant Principal The next few months hold a lot of change for our fourth and eighth grade students. School and families can work together to make these changes smooth. Here are a few ways we can and do work together. Through school… Our fourth grade students...
By CHAD THOMPSON Seniors on the Fort Dodge Senior High baseball team made a collective decision to donate money to a larger cause recently. They took the money raised in an annual dodgeball tournament and donated it to one of the player's mothers who is battling breast cancer. According to...
By BRANDON L. SUMMERS Rachel's Challenge yielded 12,400 acts of kindness this year by students in Fort Dodge community schools. Colorful paper chains wrapped around Dodger Stadium's quarter-mile track three times Tuesday as part of a year-end celebration. "Students earned those links for performing acts of kindness for other students,...
By BRANDON L. SUMMERS Together We Rise is the new guiding mantra for the Fort Dodge Community School District. Key to the effort's success is the word "together," Stacey Cole, FDCSD director of education services, said. "We know from studying education research that teacher collaboration is the No. 1 thing...
