Nashua City Clerk John Ott knows Nashua has a lot of positives going for it when it comes to tourism.The city is home to a beautiful park, complete with a lake provided by the dam on the Cedar River.

The New Hampton City Council held a brief, 12-minute meeting on Monday night with no contested votes and accomplished a fair amount for the time.City council approved tentatively awarding Kendall Rosauer, owner of Riley’s Inc., a $6,500 grant in a

After receiving only one response to its request for proposals by the April 12 deadline, from Chickasaw Ambulance Service, the Chickasaw County Ambulance Council will meet in joint session with the County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.The Ambula

Nashua Police Chief Ben Scholl was at the Nashua Public Library on Saturday afternoon to teach the public about the dangers of vaping.

Nashua American Legion member Craig Campbell received an award at the last American Legion meeting for his 70 years of continuous membership with the Legion.Campbell is a World War II veteran who served in the Navy from June 1945 until August 1946

Plainfield residents were not shocked after hearing the news one of their own was honored as 2019 Bremer County EMS Provider of the Year.Plainfield First Responders President Gary Carpenter was recognized by the Waverly Exchange Club for 2019 Brem

After public hearings, discussion and voting on the issue, the Nashua City Council on Monday approved the increase of garbage rates for the residents.City officials said the increase was necessary because Jendro Sanitation raised the rates for the

New Hampton High School students Austin Geerts and Lance Reicks hold back Cody Deere, who played the title role of Earl in “The Idiot’s Guide to High School,” during a matinee performance for the spring play that was performed this past weekend at

Denny Ungs has always been detail-orientated, even back in his school days when he used to draw while his teachers were conducting class.That trait — making sure he’s crossed his t’s and dotted his i’s — has served him well as the guy most of Chic

One of the co-presidents of New Hampton’s Dollars for Scholars chapter believes the organization is in sight of making its “second goal” when it comes to a unique “pathway” that will be built at the school’s football stadium.The scholarship organi

Writing and presenting formal speeches aren’t typically a part of the day-to-day routine for math teachers.David Voves, a 2003 New Hampton High School graduate who teaches in Charles City, worked on his speech for a couple of weeks, trying to get

New Hampton Elementary second-graders have been compiling research on a real-world problem that is important to them — disappearing pollinators — since January, and on Friday they called on the community to help save the monarch butterflies.“Matt

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors acted on documents for the Department of Transportation, being the fiscal 2020 budget and five-year construction program for Secondary Roads, and approved spending for an excavator.County Engineer Dusten R

Overheard in the “food line” at Saturday’s [April 6] Stars and Stripes Spectacular was this gem: “Oh my gosh, just looking at those dogs, that’s probably adding a $100 to my bids.”Evidently, that guy wasn’t the only one who thought that way at the

After graduating in the spring of 1952, Ralph Beck earned his Iowa Farmer degree in the fall of 1953 and still raises “some livestock” on the rural New Hampton farm where he was born.Although he wasn’t directly related to anyone at the 88th annual