An Iowa High School Music Association State Jazz Band Contest will be held Monday, January 23, at Fort Dodge Senior High. Eight bands from throughout central Iowa will participate in the festival, including: Fort Dodge Senior High Jazz I and Jazz II, St. Edmond, South Hamilton and Manson Northwest Webster....
Five seventh and eighth grade students from Fort Dodge Middle School were selected for the 2023 Karl King Honor Band. The Karl King Honor Band performed Saturday, January 14. The students spent the day rehearsing with band students from other schools before presenting the concert that evening. Students representing Fort...
The Fort Dodge Senior High gym was filled with student drivers and engineers on Saturday for the FIRST Tech Challenge Iowa Wind League Tournament. There were 20 teams competing, including two from FDSH, two from Southeast Valley High School, one from Humboldt High School and two from Manson Northwest Webster...
The Fort Dodge Community School District is pleased to announce its Students and Employee of the Month for January. This program recognizes one elementary, one middle school and one high school student, as well as one staff member monthly for exceeding expectations. Ellen Ennis is the Elementary Student of the...
Ten Fort Dodge Senior High students were selected for the 2023 North Central Iowa Bandmasters Association Honor Band. The Honor Band performs Saturday, January 7, at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City at 5 p.m. Admission is $5. “Participating in an honor band provides student the opportunity to...
During December, known as the “season of giving,” Duncombe Elementary fifth graders organized and held a clothing drive to collect winter coats, hats, gloves, boots, and snow pants for the school. Jerry Crockett was one of the fifth graders who presented the clothing drive details to other Duncombe students. He...
While students' minds were likely zoned in on the upcoming winter break, Duncombe Elementary School still found a way to sneak in some last-minute learning on Wednesday. Duncombe's holiday learning day has been a tradition for many years, but had been paused since 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. "This...
The cookies were the gift, but the gesture is what local law enforcement will always remember about the recent Christmas-time visit with the Dodger girls softball program. Head coach Andi Adams and her players baked hundreds of holiday treats for the Fort Dodge Police Department's officers, detectives and secretaries this...
The Junior Leadership Program, organized and run by the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance, is working to engage high school juniors with leaders from the community and help those students build a sense of community pride. The program, which held its first event in September, helps juniors discover the positive...
The Fort Dodge Community School District is pleased to announce its Students and Employee of the Month for December. This program recognizes one elementary, one middle school and one high school student, as well as one staff member monthly for exceeding expectations. Elfre Merida-Cano is the Elementary Student of the...
