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Robert in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Hey, Robert, what's up?

Hey, Tom.

I know his brothers had run there before, but it's different experiencing it for yourself than probably having somebody else tell you.

But what a great way for him to finish off that freshman year and stuff is to be able to get to, you know, the state meet and then finish it up there in Fort Dodge.

Right, absolutely.

I mean, he's worked hard this whole season.

And he put in the time and the effort and got rewarded.

So I was very proud of him.

Coach, as far as that goes, you know, was he doing extra stuff or just did he just work that hard in practice? And when did you start to realize that he might have that outside chance of being able to get up to Fort Dodge?

Um, about halfway by halfway through the season.

This week's finalists are Drew Bergfeld, Western Dubuque football, the senior running back and Iowa State University commit rushed 13 times for 156 yards, 12.0 per carry, and one touchdown in the Bobcats 35 to zero win over Ballard in the first round of the Iowa class for a playoffs.

Joslyn Burlage, Maquoketa Valley cross country, the eighth grader, led the Wildcats to the Iowa Class 1A state championship on Friday with a fifth place time of 18 minutes, 50.5 seconds on the 5K layout at Lakeside Golf Course in Fort Dodge.

The previous week, Burlage finished second at the state qualifying meet in leading Maquoketa Valley to the title.

And Mackenzie Nuckey.

A few larger cities and dozens of county seats, each with a hospital serving a wide stretch of farmland around it.

For families in places like Decorah, Atlantic, or Fort Dodge, that local hospital and the pharmacy down the street are where medical progress actually shows up.

New medicines start far from those towns in labs and research centers like the University of Iowa in Iowa City and the bioscience programs at Iowa State in Ames.

Getting them from the lab to a patient takes years of trials and huge sums of money, much of it spent on ideas that never pan out.

The race could help determine the balance of power in Congress.

And in Fort Dodge, firefighters say an older grinder caused a garage fire Saturday on the city's south side.

The fire started when the grinder ignited nearby materials inside a detached garage.

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