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Sump pump and the damage they are doing to the streets of New Hampton was discussed Monday night at the City Council meeting.
New Hampton Street Superintendent Junior Mai would like it to become an ordinance that sump pumps are no longer allowed to be dumped in the streets anymore.
“If there is...
When Chickasaw County hires a new Veterans Affairs director, the office he or she has will move to the east side of New Hampton.
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors decided Monday to move the office from the Chickasaw County Community Services Building to a building located at 910 E. Main...
Flo Throndson had a saying her children heard a million times.
“The Lord will provide.”
There’s a lot of veracity to that statement, at least if the charity that carries her name is any indication.
Just ask her son Tim, one of 13 Throndsons who he jokes had to live with “middle-child syndrome.”
A...
The Nashua-Plainfield Lions held their meeting last week to introduce new members and to celebrate milestones for years of service for three members.
Harold Rausch has been a member of the Lions Club for 45 years. John Larson, 35 years and Wayne Miller, 15 years.
New members included: Craig...
The budget has been a topic for many months, for the Council members and Monday evening they discussed options when it comes to cutting the budget.
Some of the options which were discussed are reducing HSAs accounts for City employees, laying off a full-time police officer, possibly laying off a...
Just making it to the National History Day contest was cool for Morgan Kapping, as was a chance to display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
And finishing fourth in the nation, well, that was positively stunning for the Nashua-Plainfield senior to be.
But the best part of last week...
Sports
With the regular season winding down, time is getting short for Turkey Valley’s girls to land their first win of the season. They were unable to do so against MFL Monday, as they lost 11-1 and 10-5 games on the road. Even more critical for the team is to put a complete game together by...
One was a win, one was a loss, but in both cases Turkey Valley’s baseball team rallied in the sixth inning when they played a doubleheader at Edgewood-Colesburg Monday. The Trojan record went to 7-11 the next night as Oelwein played at Jackson Junction and won a slim 4-1 contest. In conference...
Asked how many mantras his team has, and New Hampton baseball coach Cory McDonald couldn’t help but laugh.“A lot,” the coach said, “but you know, we have those mantras and those sayings for a reason.”Take “next play,” for example.Never was it more important than early in Wednesday’s Northeast Iowa ...
How long has it been since a New Hampton softball team has beaten a Waverly-Shell Rock softball team?The last time was on June 19, 2013.The Chickasaws won 2-1 on a two-RBI single by Allie Geerts.Jessie Crooks pitched that game, but Wednesday Kayla Gilbert was on the mound. She pitched six of the...
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