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Ambulances will remain in city garage

The Chickasaw Ambulance Council last week voted to keep two ambulances that serve the county at the New Hampton Police Department garage as long as the city of New Hampton will provide liability insurance to the rigs.

Former Board of Health member files lawsuit against county and supervisor

A former Chickasaw County Board of Health member has filed a lawsuit against Chickasaw County and one of its supervisors claiming that he was libeled and slandered during the county’s attempt to remove him from the board.

We’re all in this together

Dawn Heying stood in the top row of the Mikkelson Park baseball grandstand Friday evening and looked down at the crowd gathered for the start of the Their Fight Is Our Fight 5K run/walk.

This is much more than tractor tale

This is way more than a tale about a tractor that will do so much good in one of the poorest parts of the world.

Public Works director: Rate increases desperately needed

New Hampton Public Works Director Casey Mai pulled out his phone Friday morning and started scrolling through his photos — stopping at two in particular.

Ambulance sparks fly at City Council meeting

The New Hampton City Council once again tabled paying its share of “seed money” to the Chickasaw County Ambulance Council.

County to get influx of vaccine

Chickasaw County Public Health and Homecare Services will in all likelihood pass the 4,000 vaccine mark this week, thanks to the fact that the state is providing the county with an additional 300 COVID-19 vaccines.

Sign shop lovingly wraps unique trailer

Don't get Sandy Boeding or Elizabeth Holthaus wrong, when they "wrap" a trailer — any vehicle, really — they do so with loving care.

Contentious supervisors OK budget

Twenty-eight days elapsed between budget hearings held by the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors, but not much else changed Monday.

KEEPING THE FAITH

When the pandemic closed churches a year ago, area pastors and priests didn’t just close the doors and nap for a month.
If anything, their jobs became that much tougher.

Sweet entrepreneur

Let’s get one thing out of the way, the reporter of this story did a thorough job on this story.

Pool will open, but workers are needed

The New Hampton Municipal Pool will definitely be open this coming summer, but Parks and Recreation officials say they are still woefully short of applicants.

Breakfast is served

The 49th annual New Hampton Lions Breakfast will be remembered for a good, long time by the club members.

New Hampton students shine at state speech

It’s the little moments that mean the most to New Hampton individual speech coach Jason Speltz.

There’s a lot going on with county’s Conservation Board

On a daily basis, Chickasaw County Conservation Board Naturalist Matt Crayne may be rescuing an animal, educating students in the classroom or working on the upkeep and improvements of the 37 areas managed by the county. 

Ambulance Council approves new two-year contract

The Chickasaw Ambulance Council unanimously approved a two-year contract with the county's current ambulance provider during a meeting Tuesday evening in which council members also approved a budget and a rental agreement to house two ambulan

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