By Jeffrey Fleishman, LA Times & Photos by Rebecca F. Miller / For The Times Percy B. Long wore wingtips and rolled his own cigarettes. He managed the Webster Theater in the days before talkies, when trains ran swift and nights settled over plowed fields that spread as if a dark sea from Fort Dodge […]
Aaron Rider is the new manager of the Webster Theater By Anne Blankenship: Daily Freeman Journal Managing Editor ablankenship@freemanjournal.net There’s a new face at the Webster Theater. The HERO Board recently hired Aaron Rider, 41, of Webster City as the new manager of the facility. Rider is an Iowa native. He grew up in Waterloo […]
By: ADRI SIETSTRA, Daily Freeman Journal Reporter asietstra@freemanjournal.net Thanks to a community act of kindness, local students were able to attend a free showing of ‘Wonder’ at the Webster Theater this week. An estimated 600 students from Webster City Middle School, Northeast Hamilton and Stratford had the opportunity to see the newly released film which […]
The Angel Tree Project has officially begun for the 2017 holiday season. Community members once again have an opportunity to bring joy to a local child in need by adopting a tag off of the Angel Tree. The tree, located at the Webster Theater, boasts 280 tags this year. Last year, 270 tags were adopted […]
In 2011, Webster City, Iowa, experienced a massive economic shift after the town’s large appliance manufacturing plant shut down. This left many jobless and impacted local business, including the closing of the town’s beloved, historic movie theater. But the community refused to let their town die—and “Made in Iowa” tells the story of how small […]