Iowa Central Community College News

Browse past news stories for Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, IA:

  • Parks warms up to Iowa (Beloit Daily News)
    posted on March 18, 2010 at 09:24:04 pm
    Ex-Knight hones his skills on junior college Tritons
  • Streaks Notebook: Baseball opener may be moved up (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
    posted on March 18, 2010 at 02:53:03 pm
    Arnie Gonzalez becomes part baseball coach, part weatherman at this time of the year. Two days before the Galesburg Opening Weekend Tournament kicks off the start of the season, the Silver Streaks baseball coach was keeping a watchful eye on the weather forecast for Saturday. The Streaks are scheduled to play LaSalle-Peru and Rockford Guilford on Saturday, a hope that has turned into a likely ...
  • Key casino backers lend support to Culver (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 18, 2010 at 04:15:13 am
    Some of the major players in the effort to bring casino gaming to Fort Dodge have contributed thousands of dollars to the re-election campaign of Gov. Chet Culver, according to reports filed with state regulators. Culver has endorsed the bid to open a local casino, and he's asked the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission to give gaming organizers the needed state license.
  • NCAA wrestling championships: Oregon State's Colby Covington takes long road to Omaha (The Oregonian)
    posted on March 18, 2010 at 01:08:48 am
    Reaching a point where the Springfield native could contend for a national title wouldn't have come without first hitting his lowest point, sitting on the side of a road in Iowa with police lights flashing behind him.
  • Beall to seek third term (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 16, 2010 at 04:33:07 am
    State Sen. Daryl Beall, D-Fort Dodge, announced Monday that he is seeking re-election. Beall is seeking his third term. He represents Senate District 25, which includes Calhoun and Greene counties plus most of Webster Count.
  • Expo hints of spring (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 14, 2010 at 05:03:28 am
    One of the items on display in the Earl May Nursery & Garden Center display at the 2010 Home and Garden Expo being held this weekend in the Career Education Building is having an effect on visitors. Rick Lamoureux, manager of the center, had thought to include a few pots of colorful flowers. "Just the sight of blooming flowers gets them going," he said. "There's a big eagerness to get outside.
  • Keller helps Tritons to title (The Hawk Eye)
    posted on March 12, 2010 at 04:36:17 pm
    Mediapolis High School graduate Kara Keller, a sophomore at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, placed sixth in the 800-meter run and ran on a pair of relay teams which finished third, helping the Tritons grab a share of the NJCAA Indoor National Championships team title last weekend in Charleston, Ill.
  • Politics and economy figure in biodiesel debate (The Ames Tribune)
    posted on March 7, 2010 at 07:58:15 am
    A move to require 5 percent biodiesel fuel sales in Iowa may or may not pass the Legislature this session. But B-5 isn’t the only question facing the biodiesel industry.
  • Got worms? Make compost (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 7, 2010 at 05:08:32 am
    While many people might react a bit negatively to earthworms - they are, after all, a bit slimy - for gardeners who choose to use them to help make compost, they can be a good friend.
  • Fish stories: Public can view art in action at studio today (Spencer Daily Reporter)
    posted on March 6, 2010 at 06:13:48 am
    "It's a performance." Those are the words that artist Simeon Lisk used to describe what's going to happen at Bogenrief Studios Saturday beginning at 2 p.m. And Lisk should know, it's his concept and...
  • Trip links locals with D.C. (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 5, 2010 at 05:08:42 am
    Representatives of the Fort Dodge community spent much of Thursday on Capitol Hill talking to congressional staffers about things like job training programs and the effort to redevelop downtown. A group of 12 people representing Fort Dodge and Webster County government, Iowa Central Community College and the Fort Dodge Area Chamber of Commerce are in Washington, D.C.
  • Local leaders meet with federal officials in D.C. (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 4, 2010 at 05:08:51 am
    Job training and transportation issues were discussed Wednesday when local leaders and federal officials met in Washington, D.C. Those meetings filled the first day of an annual lobbying trip to the nation's capital by leaders of Fort Dodge and Webster County government, Iowa Central Community College and the Fort Dodge Area Chamber of Commerce.
  • Area residents reach friends, family in quake-stricken Chile (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 4, 2010 at 05:08:21 am
    A few months ago Patty Croonquist, an instructor at Iowa Central Community College, was visiting family in Concepcion, Chile. When she returns, there is little doubt the landscape will have changed dramatically after an earthquake registering 8.8 on the Richter scale hit north of Croonquist's hometown last Saturday. "I grew up in Concepcion," Croonquist said. "My mother's side is from there.
  • FD group heads to Washington (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on March 2, 2010 at 05:15:56 am
    On every worker's paycheck, there's a line showing how much money the federal government took in income taxes. A group of local officials is about to embark on a trip to Washington, D.C., with the goal of bringing some of that tax money back to the Fort Dodge area to pay for things like improving neighborhoods and building trails.
  • Budget dominates local lawmakers' concern (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 28, 2010 at 05:01:07 am
    Budgetary issues will likely dominate what's left of the 2010 Iowa legislative session. A bill calling for state government reorganization that would save an estimated $127 million passed the Senate on Feb. 2.
  • Turner takes new path (The Hawk Eye)
    posted on February 27, 2010 at 04:51:32 pm
    shot put.
  • NIACC students plan their careers (The Globe Gazette)
    posted on February 27, 2010 at 06:35:11 am
    MASON CITY — Kyle Pals has considered an engineering career “since forever.” Or at least since middle school.
  • Libe breaks Iowa Central shot put record, qualifies for NJCAA indoors (Washington Evening Journal)
    posted on February 26, 2010 at 08:24:24 pm
    FORT DODGE — Even though he’s just a freshman at Iowa Central Community College, James Libe has already qualified for nationals and put his name in the school’s record books.
  • Census organizers encourage full participation (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 25, 2010 at 05:08:46 am
    The United States Census is more than just a head count. Data collected from the Census not only determines the population of a general area, it can be used to determine the number of United States representatives assigned to a state, how much money a state gets and also bring new business and industries to a community, according to Wendi Anne Muir, a senior partnership specialist with the U.S.
  • City tax, fee hikes explained (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 24, 2010 at 05:08:35 am
    Faced with the mind-numbing array of figures that make up a city budget, the average person may seek the answer to just one question: How much is this going to cost me? In Fort Dodge, the proposed city budget for 2010-2011 is going to cost residents more in property taxes and garbage collection fees.
  • Celebrating diversity (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 22, 2010 at 05:08:44 am
    In America, different cultures have played a role in shaping the society in which we live. Unfortunately, some of those cultures' contributions, like African, have been marginalized.
  • Director wants people to know the real march king (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 21, 2010 at 05:08:46 am
    Today's Karl L. Municipal King Band concert is a quest, of sorts. It's a nostalgic trip back in time, said Band Director Jerrold Jimmerson, of Manson. "Pieces we're playing were published in 1910," he said. "That's kind of the quest I'm on here. I feel I'm taking the band and the public on a history lesson of things Mr. King did.
  • DMACC teams host ‘Pink Out’ tomorrow (Boone News Republican)
    posted on February 19, 2010 at 03:33:58 pm
    For the second time this season, the Des Moines Area Community College basketball teams will host a Pink Out in support of breast cancer.
  • Christensen takes helm at Daily Freeman-Journal (The Daily Freeman-Journal)
    posted on February 19, 2010 at 05:02:02 am
    Terry Christensen has been named general manager of The Daily Freeman-Journal, Larry D. Bushman has announced. Christensen, 50, who has more than a dozen years of newspaper advertising experience, previously served as the advertising director of The Messenger in Fort Dodge and oversaw the advertising staff at The Daily Freeman-Journal from 2004 until 2007.
  • Iowa Central students and local dentists give kids a smile (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 15, 2010 at 05:10:00 am
    Several area children who have been underserved with their dental health received the necessary care they needed recently through the efforts of the Iowa Central Community College Dental Hygiene students and two local dentists. Dentists Dr. John Clay, of Fort Dodge and Dr.
  • Who’s next on Iowa men’s recruiting front? Hatchett, Williams, Alexander? (The Gazette)
    posted on February 12, 2010 at 06:17:19 pm
    The first is Kaylon Williams, a Cedar Rapids Kennedy graduate and sophomore at Kirkwood Community College. Williams, a 6-foot-3 point guard, led the Missouri Valley Conference in assists last year for Evansville (Ind.) before transferring to Kirkwood.
  • DMACC women to host “Pink Out” event (Boone News Republican)
    posted on February 12, 2010 at 02:17:44 pm
    For the second time this season, the Des Moines Area Community College basketball teams will host a “Pink Out” in support of breast cancer research.
  • Iowa women’s basketball: Pair of walk-ons emerge in light of numbers crisis (The Des Moines Register)
    posted on February 11, 2010 at 01:09:18 am
    Megan Considine and Danni Huss planned to be teammates at Iowa this season. They didn’t think it’d be at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
  • Van Wyk signs letter of intent to be a Triton (The Oskaloosa Herald)
    posted on February 9, 2010 at 02:12:22 pm
    Oskaloosa senior defensive back Jordan Van Wyk will be going from an Indian to a Triton, signing a letter of intent to play football form Iowa Central Community College.
  • School Closing and Delays (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
    posted on February 9, 2010 at 12:15:35 pm
    Algona Public and Parochial Schools - CLOSED Belmond-Klemme Schools - CLOSED Buena Vista Fort Dodge Center - CLOSED Clarion-Goldfield Schools - CLOSED Dow Community Schools - CLOSED Eagle Grove Schools - CLOSED Fort Dodge Public & Parochial Schools - CLOSED Gilmore City-Bradgate Schools - CLOSED Humboldt & St Mary's Schools - CLOSED Iowa Central Community College -...