The Chickasaw County Ambulance Council has a little more than 3 1/2 months to find a provider, yet at a meeting Tuesday night, council members made little headway on finalizing a request for proposals (RFP) that they hope to send out by April 1.An

Chickasaw County will continue to buy down an increase in employee health insurance premiums using reserve funds and some new funds, as discussed on Monday.Renewal rates from Wellmark came in at what would have been almost an 8 percent increase ov

Turning her love of music into a career is exactly what Hannah Pederson is doing while raising her three young children.

At the very least the titles — “Dirt on My Shirt,” “Ivan,” “The Grapes of Math,” and “Diary of a Worm” — sound cool as Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School kicked off its own version of March Madness with an assembly to kick off a new reading progr

After surviving the winter in Iowa, the Rev.

Weather delays and postponements has made this speech season one to remember for the Nashua-Plainfield students, but it has all paid off for the students who went to the state individual speech contest in Forest City on Saturday.Isaac Swaney, Tann

Noah Stochl loves to compete — always has and always will.The 2013 New Hampton High School graduate showed his competitive fire on the foot- ball field, basketball court, golf course and baseball diamond as a Chickasaw, and he played football and

As a member of the St.

Seven members of the New Hampton High School Band nominated by Director Justin Adam were selected by the Dorian Honor Band committee to participate in the two festival massed bands and the Dorian Band Festival Grand Concert which culminated the Lu

Randy Nosbisch couldn’t help but chuckle when the New Hampton Lions Club president was asked how Sunday’s Pancake and French Toast Breakfast went.“Well, the good news is that we never really change jobs with this,” he said, “so we pretty much know

Children’s enthusiasm for the Elementary Carnival on Friday was palpable.Like many others, fourth-grader Belle Broughton arrived before the games opened and had been there hanging out with her friends for the whole two-plus hours of games.Her favo

If you don’t think school finances are complicated, the rebuttal would be New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens’ budget presentation to the School Board during a special meeting last week.Enrollment in the school district dropped 19 students from

The Chickasaw County Financial Report on the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, was presented to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday [March 5].Of public interest is the “Management Letter” portion, in which private auditors Hacker, Nelson and Co.

New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens heard the message he received from School Board members last month loud and clear.Back on Feb.

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to effectively reduce the combined county tax asking to $8.74575 per $1,000 assessed valuation.That’s nearly 13 cents higher than the rate set last year, nearly a 1.5 percent increase, but nearly