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By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — A lightning storm darkened some homes in Humboldt yesterday morning as a lightning strike caused multiple outages. MidAmerican Energy announced that 604 customers lost power from 9:41am […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — Officer Tom Nielsen responded to a single car accident at around 5pm on Monday night on 11th Street. Per the police report, 61 year old Michael Loftus […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — Deputy Kenneth Vorland responded to a single car accident at around 6:30 in the morning on Friday, September 13th at the intersection of Highway 3 and 220th […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — On Saturday, Officer David Jones responded to a two car wreck on 10th Avenue and Highway 169. 36 year old Gabriel Pettit of Humboldt was driving his […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Des Moines, IA — Northwest Bank has won the top workplace award given out by the Des Moines Register for the fifth consecutive year. The award is based on employee […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Washington D.C. — Senator Chuck Grassley’s celebrated his 86th birthday yesterday. The longest currently sitting senator in the United State Senate was surprised by fellow Iowa Senator Joni Ernst with […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — The Humboldt City Council met at the Humboldt Municipal building last night. The consent agenda was approved which set trick or treating for October 31st from 3pm […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Dakota City, IA — The Humboldt County Supervisors met for their weekly meeting at the Humboldt County Courthouse. Sheriff Dean Kruger and Deputy Cory Lampe were in attendance to discuss […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — The Public Safety Commission met this morning at the Humboldt Municipal Building to discuss the tower project at the LEC. Invoices were sent by Motorola in the […]

By: Jacob Sexton — jacobs@977thebolt.com Humboldt, IA — Tonight is the Humboldt City Council meeting at the Humboldt Municipal Building. On the consent agenda, a tentative time between 5:30 and 7:30pm will be asked to […]