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- Supervisors hear budget request from county libraries
The Wright County Board of Supervisors faced a light agenda at their first Monday meeting of the new year.
- Supervisors set hearing date for transfer of land
Steven Bakke, an attorney from Forest City representing Krysilis, appeared before the Wright County Board of Supervisors on Monday with a request for a public hearing date on a transfer of county property.
- Holmes Christmas Auction was a success
Even with today's economic uncertainties, the citizens of Wright County again responded overwhelmingly to the November 24th auction held by the Holmes Christmas Club.
- Calendar for Friday, Nov. 14
The annual Charles City Lions Club Book Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 1012 S. Grand .
- +++ the Assault on Culture II +++ Dows bar (upstairs) 3-5pm Saturday...
Glasgow G1 2AH - adjacent Queen St. Station Panel DISCUSSION with: Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Jaron Rowan, Anthony Davies, Marina Vishmidt, Leigh French, Daniel Jewesbury Does private-public funding and management ...
- Wright voters approve local option sales taxes
Voters in eight areas of Wright County approved one-percent local option sales tax measures Tuesday night.
- Eberling wins in Franklin County
Republican Corey Eberling, 38, Sheffield, was re-elected to the Franklin County Board of Supervisors District 3 seat.
- Around North Iowa
DOWS: A ground breaking was held October 10 for the new travel center that will be built at the I-35 exit near here.
- Les Loecher: The community banks are very strong and it's business as usual
Wright County Treasurer Peggy Schluttenhofer, along with Les Loecher, First Citizens National Bank President, appeared at this week's Wright County Board of Supervisors meeting to address the current local ...
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What was to be just an approval and signing of plans for the resurfacing project on Wright County road C-70 turned out to be a postponement in submitting the plan for bidding during the Board of Supervisors' ...
- Junk Cars to Be Hidden Behind Fence
Belmond man talks to county supervisors about complaints. Kevin Smith of rural Belmond talked to the Wright County Supervisors Monday about complaints aired last week by County Sanitarian Earl Kalkwarf and ...
- Alden Mayor: Apartment Building Fire Suspicious
Alden Mayor Jeff Fiscus said Sunday that an apartment building fire in his town is suspicious.
- TIDBITS
Justin Goematt was named to the spring deans list at the University of Dubuque. He was one of 50 students who won a Character Scholarship for truthfullness, honesty, fairness, and applying the Golden Rule.
- Wright County Historical Society continues work on old map
As a 1996 Iowa Sesquicentennial project, the Wright County Historical Society undertook a project of identifying the "ghost towns" of the county.
- Supervisors Hear About Broken Tile
Keith Hubbard of McClure Engineering met with the Wright County Board of Supervisors Monday to discuss Drainage District 177 .
- Governments Want to Renew Sales Tax
Petitions will soon be circulated throughout Wright County to see if citizens want to continue the one-cent local option sales tax for Belmond, Clarion, Dows and rural Wright County.
- Local Sales Tax could be question on the upcoming General Election ballots
Fronting the Wright County Board of Supervisors' agenda Monday morning were area responses concerning the Local Option Sales Tax.
- Fundraiser for Republicans set
The Hawk Eye DENMARK -- Several speakers, led by state party chairman Stewart Iverson, are expected at the Lee County Republican Party's fundraiser at 6 p.m. today at the Denmark Celebration Center.
- Fundraiser for Republicans set
The Hawk Eye DENMARK -- Several speakers, led by state party chairman Stewart Iverson, are expected at the Lee County Republican Party's fundraiser at 6 p.m. today at the Denmark Celebration Center.
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City DescriptionDows is a city in Franklin and Wright Counties of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 675 at the 2000 census.
Dows is located at 42°39′25″N 93°30′8″W / 42.65694, -93.50222 (42.656882, -93.502175).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²), of which, 0.8 square miles (2.0 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (3.75%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 675 people, 290 households, and 164 families residing in the city. The population density was 867.3 people per square mile (334.1/km²). There were 320 housing units at an average density of 411.2/sq mi (158.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.30% White, 0.89% Asian, 6.37% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.19% of the population.
There were 290 households out of which 21.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.2% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.4% were non-families. 40.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 23.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
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- Franklin County
- Wright County
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