Last season, the Turkey Valley girls basketball team owned a solid record of 13-8. However, the Trojans are hoping to take a step forward and be even better this year.
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Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made his presidential pitch to New Hampton residents Thursday, but at least for a few moments, this wasn’t your typical “Iowa nice” campaign stop.
That’s when the 77-year-old Biden and an 83-year-old retired farmer named Merle Gorman had a heated exchange over...

Freedom and great art have something in common. Neither one is free, but both are very worthy of acquiring.
Ten years ago, Gene Blazek didn’t have freedom or art on his mind when he unearthed a massive boulder on his property. He was building a waterway, and the rock was in his way. Took him 45...

Chickasaw County’s elected officials will be getting raises next summer; it’s just not as large as the ones the Compensation Board recommended.
The Board of Supervisors last Tuesday voted to cut those pay hikes in half, and Compensation Board Chairman Michael Kennedy said after the meeting that “it...

Ryan Huffman was battling a nasty cold that Monday, but after spending a weekend in Minneapolis watching his beloved Oakland Raiders, he knew calling in sick was out of the question.
Midway through the day, his principal knocked on the door of his Osage Middle School social studies classroom and...

When kids who normally compete against each other, play together, beautiful things can happen.
Last Monday night it was New Hampton’s turn to host the Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) Honor Music Festival with over 200 students from every conference school coming together to make music.
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As Doug Scheuth made his way around his hardware store on Saturday, he took a deep breath and smiled as he was asked how Black Friday went?
“We had a good day, really good day,” he said. “It was steady all day and it was definitely a good start.”
Schueth wasn’t the only person in retail that was...