It wasn’t wholly unexpected — after all, Shopko has been teetering for months — but the news that the Wisconsin-based company will close all its stores this spring still was a blow to New Hampton.“It hurts, I’m going to be honest about that,” New
Chase Sudol stood outside S&T Collision on Tuesday morning, looked at the sun shining and looked ahead a couple of months.“Days like this,” he said, “they get us really excited for the splash pad.
A public hearing is set for the next Nashua City Council meeting regarding the garbage rates.Jendro Sanitation is asking the city to approve a 1.9 percent increase in garbage rates plus a $1.51 per household per month increase.
Two out of three isn’t bad, not bad at all.After a week of waiting to hear the news, Nashua-Plainfield seniors Tanner Striegel and Drew Moine learned this past Saturday that they had been nominated for the All-State Speech Festival that will be he
After meeting with Fredericksburg Economic Development officials in recent weeks, the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors approved resolutions last week giving incentives to two businesses there for job creation and retention.In both cases, new
Kevin Frey believes the folks who will attend this Saturday’s “Dancing with the Stars” event should count themselves as fortunate.“Put it this way, I’m not only glad I’m the MC,” the Trinity Lutheran Church pastor said, “but the people who are att
Emma Schwickerath made it through her fifth Dance Showcase Saturday night but not without a few — OK, maybe a lot — tears.“It’s always hard for me, especially because I know this is the last time the seniors will dance with us,” the New Hampton da
Ask Terry Basol about what kind of year the ISU Extension agronomist believes area farmers deserve and he has a quick answer.“The guys have earned a nice, normal year,” he said.
While teaching about the My Plate dietary guidelines, Linda Burgart once had students taste food samples before revealing what each was.At the end of the session, Burgart, who teaches the Ag in the Classroom program for Chickasaw County Farm Burea
The first time is always the scariest.Before your mind jumps into the gutter, this story is about giving blood.Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood, according to the American Red Cross website, which goes on to say blood is
As far as New Hampton speech coach Jason Speltz is concerned, any team that finished with 12 Division I ratings at the state individual contest has something going for it.The fact that New Hampton did that in a year like this, when the weather wre
The brick is in, the walls are up and when walking around what will be New Hampton’s soon-to-be middle school, one can definitely see a school building taking shape.“I know I say this almost every time we’ve done an update,” Superintendent Jay Jur
