Area schoolchildren will get a fourth straight day off from school Thursday as superintendents called off classes as the area braced for another night of dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills.
This isn’t exactly a news flash because anyone who has stepped outside lately knows it’s cold outside.
And the kicker is that it’s supposedly going to get even colder Wednesday night.
New Hampton High School large-group speech coach Kassie Bercik understands that some of her students wanted “more” at the district contest last week, but she wants all of her students to know that they made her proud.“Everyone wants a [Divison] I
Lacey McGrath put it simply when the Mercy Family Clinic nurse practitioner was asked Sunday about this week’s frigid forecast.“It’s not safe, period,” she said of temperatures that are expect- ed to dip to near 30 below both Wednesday and Thursda
A home-grown corn waffle breakfast, chili cook-off and “sleigh mania” (or wagon mania, depending on the weather) are some immediate reasons to attend the Northeast Iowa Antique Engine and Power Club’s second annual breakfast on Saturday, Feb.
Companies on Milwaukee Street dominated the action at a quick City Council meeting Monday.Zip’s AW Direct President Paul Rottinghaus spoke on the company request to add a pedestrian crosswalk near the intersection of North Maple Avenue across West
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors approved a sharing agreement for legal case management software called ProLaw that it can back out of with 30 days of notice, and took up the budget and staffing for the County Attorney’s Office in a discu
The world’s most popular sport is coming to New Hampton High School, thanks to a unanimous vote by the School Board Monday night.Board members voted to add soccer to its sports offerings, beginning in the 2019-20 school year, after hearing from a
The latest storm to hit the New Hampton area turned out to be one gigantic dud, but it certainly messed up plenty of schedules along the way.After virtually every school in Northeast Iowa called off classes and canceled extra-curricular activities
Shirley Troyna is settling in as the Chickasaw County Recorder. Troyna has worked two decades in the office, which is when then newly-elected Recorder Cindy Messersmith hired her away from the treasurer’s office.
New Hampton/Turkey Valley wrestling coach Nick Hemann will not complete the season, school officials announced in a terse four-sentence statement released Wednesday afternoon.
Carla Dreckman admits she’s almost like a little kid again, although instead of being excited for Christmas morning, the Lawler Lions Club member can’t wait for Cowboy Poetry this weekend.“It’s going very well, and I think now we’re just so ready
Sophie Adams wanted more on the mat, but a day after competing in the first ever girls state wrestling tournament, maybe the best way to describe Adams’ take on the event could be summed up in one word — grateful.“I thought it was an amazing exper
