🌱 How Fort Dodge’s bats powered another dominant softball doubleheader sweep

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In today's newsletter:

• How Fort Dodge’s bats powered another dominant softball doubleheader sweep
• Could hydrogen deep under Webster County reshape Iowa’s energy future?

Also on today's calendar: Date Me DSM @ River Hops Brewing Fort Dodge (25-40) and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Partly sunny and warmer, with a high of 85 and low of 64 degrees.
• Saturday: An afternoon thunderstorm, temps: high: 76, low: 52.
• Sunday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 73 and low of 52 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Third-ranked Dodgers stay hot (messengernews.net) — Fort Dodge’s third-ranked softball team kept rolling at Rogers Park, rallying from an early deficit to sweep Des Moines Roosevelt with a pair of 10-run performances. Local standouts like pitcher Aubrey Alstott, slugger Ellie Doster, and Grace Nichols powered the Dodgers’ hot bats, which currently rank among the best in Class 4A statewide. The team heads to Waterloo East next for another doubleheader.
   

• Geologic Hydrogen: Iowa's Deep Energy Resource (fuelcellsworks.com) — Iowa scientists and state officials are exploring whether deep underground rocks could make geologic hydrogen a major new clean-energy resource, with promising signs stretching across much of the state. Earlier gas storage tests in northeast Webster County, near Fort Dodge, even detected gas that was 96% hydrogen, helping draw exploration interest to this region. Researchers are now weighing environmental safeguards, landowner rights, and economic opportunities if hydrogen development moves forward.
   

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📸 Around Fort Dodge

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Fort Dodge

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday June 13

• Carpenters Once More →
  Fort Frenzy, 3232 1st Ave S, Fort Dodge
  4:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday June 13

• Date Me DSM @ River Hops Brewing Fort Dodge (25-40) →
  River Hops Brewing, 1014 Central Ave, Fort Dodge
  6:00 pm

Friday June 19

• Havenpalooza →
  Friendship Haven, 420 Kenyon Rd, Fort Dodge
  3:00 pm

Saturday June 27

• Adult Open Studio →
  Blanden Art Education Center, 224 S 8th St, Fort Dodge
  9:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday June 18

• Board Game Afternoons for Adults →
  Fort Dodge Public Library, 424 Central Ave, Fort Dodge
  3:30 pm

Monday June 22

• FDPL Board Meeting →
  Fort Dodge Public Library, 424 Central Ave, Fort Dodge
  3:30 pm

Friday July 3

• Kids Summer Meals →
  West Twin Park, 1100 Superior St, Webster City
  11:30 am

Monday July 6

• FDPL Book Club ~ James →
  Fort Dodge Public Library, 424 Central Ave, Fort Dodge
  6:00 pm

Saturday July 11

• CONFEDERATE RAILROAD →
  Wright County Fairgrounds, 901 SE 1st St, Eagle Grove
  7:00 pm

Saturday July 18

• District Meeting/Bikes For Tykes Run →
  Fort Dodge Ford Lincoln Toyota, 2723 5th Ave S, Fort Dodge
  11:00 am

Saturday July 25

• Fort Dodge Sports Card and Collectable Show →
  Webster County Fairgrounds, 22770 Old Hwy 169, Fort Dodge
  10:00 am

Monday August 3

• FDPL Book Club ~ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and... →
  Fort Dodge Public Library, 424 Central Ave, Fort Dodge
  6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• CBRE Group posted a job opening for Cleaning Supervisor- 2nd shift 4pm-12:30am M-F in Fort Dodge. Apply here.
• DRM Arbys posted a job opening for Team Member in Fort Dodge. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fort Dodge here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Humboldt

• Humboldt Library offers free summer reading program (madriverunion.com)
• Lion softball on historic run (clreporter.com)

Webster City

• Webster City softball walks it off against Hampton-Dumont-CAL, 8-7 (kqradio.com)
• Webster City Market Nights returns tonight (freemanjournal.net)
• Volunteers are needed Saturday for city-wide clean-up event (freemanjournal.net)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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