The TRIBE Trail Committee is well on its way to securing a $224,000 grant for the second phase of the trail that will eventually connect existing ones in Mikkelson Park and the city’s west-side Industrial Park.Committee members Rick Kramer and Meg
It’s about to get real when it comes to the construction of New Hampton’s new school.As spring nears, Superintendent Jay Jurrens said this past week that he expects construction will commence shortly after the Easter holiday.“I think we’re all rea
A murdered magician, about a dozen suspects and about 150 local sleuths dined out, solved a crime and shared a lot of laughs Saturday night at the Elma Memorial Hall.
Three individuals from North Iowa have been arrested for crimes that involved one dog poisoned to death and subsequent threats to do the same to a child. The dog’s dead body was found in a freezer in the accused individuals’ home.
Go back in time three years ago to St. Joseph Community School, where Alison McDonald was an eighth-grader.
Find her and tell her, “Oh, by the way, in three years, you’ll be an FFA district officer.”
Area law officers were justified in their actions shooting and killing a man who had first been seen with a gun by a customer at Love’s Travel Stop in Floyd, the Bremer County attorney has determined.
Some of the different ways of becoming a distracted driver — eating while driving, turning around and talking to back-seat passengers and looking anywhere rather than the road in front of the car — were covered by Matt Logan when he talked to Nash
Captain Hook, Tinkerbell and The Lost Boys were all seen at the Nashua-Plainfield Elementary this weekend when the gym was full of pirates, crocs, dwellers and many others.
Nashua-Plainfield Community Schools is “getting there” when it comes to finding about $400,000 in savings in its 2018-19 budget, but the School Board and administrators still have some work to do.
This is how speech works.
You get a Division I rating at state on a Saturday and then you wait two agonizingly long days for the Iowa High School Speech Association to post the All-State Speech Festival qualifiers on its website.
A new weight room … kids spending too much time on “screens” … school lunches … not enough activities available outside of school … parking lot problems … bullying … too few class options … making sports safer … more art in school.
Overheard a lot at the annual New Hampton Elementary School Carnival Friday night were two words: “I’m exhausted.”
Of course, that was the view of the parents.
What do you do when you’re offered a chance to take a class that can teach you how to make better donuts?
You sign up for the class, of course. And hopefully, you eat some donuts.
