The issue for Great Plays Daycare is simple: It simply doesn’t have enough room at its current location on South Linn Avenue.“We have more kids on the waiting list than we have enrolled,” Great Plays Board Member Lacy Carolan said, “and we’re just
A new business is planned for the southeast corner of Main and Chestnut, Economic Development Director Tammy Robinson told the New Hampton City Council on Monday.Tammy Barta presented a business plan to open a medical uniform service called Follow
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors is directing the county attorney’s office in writing to look into concerns brought by a citizen about the scope of the Emergency Management Agency Commission and taxation for rescue services.The Chickasaw
Caleb Lines had just taken a biology exam, but a chemistry quiz was 30 minutes away as he made his way around the Wartburg College campus recently when his phone rang.He gave it a quick glance and saw it was from a Texas number and silenced it.
The Nashua City Council on Monday night approved an extension between the city and the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office on a contract for law-enforcement services.The new contract will run through June 30, 2019, and both city officials and Chicka
Lifting the spirits of veterans was the mission Catherine Roberts took away from a dream of bestowing a quilt on her son serving in Iraq when she founded the Quilts of Valor Foundation in 2003.All veteran recipients interviewed showed appreciation
Data Processing Director Ray Armel got added to the agenda and addressed the Board of Supervisors on “county email domain and [its] use” last week. “Last year the board directed … the [information technology] manager at that time, to establish an
The calendar may say it’s 2018, but at least at the New Hampton Rotary Club meeting last week, it was 1985.“Well, I don’t know if I’d go that far,” said former University of Iowa quarterback Chuck Long, who spoke before a crowd of more than 60 Rot
New Hampton fourth grade students left class on Thursday knowing a watershed is an area of land that drains into a common water body and some things they could do to protect it.Two Iowa State University staffers, Todd Stevens, outreach specialist,
Readers in Chickasaw County evidently are not “followers,” at least if the Great American Read says anything.The winner of the nationwide PBS competition for the best book — among 100 selected as finalists — was “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classi
The Salvation Army of Chickasaw County has been able to provide needed aid to the community over the last three years thanks to the generosity of locals during its “red kettle” fund drive, both through cash and the “in kind” voluntarism of bell-ri
The independent committee that organizes a spectacular holiday light display in New Hampton has been hard at work in concert with the community to outperform last year’s inaugural event.It’s the hope of committee member Lisa Pool that the communit
In conjunction with the Veterans Day week, New Hampton fourth grade students inspected the Chickasaw County Veterans Memorial, noticing things they might not have seen before.Teachers a couple of years ago walked through the memorial and develope
If Lydia Klinkel, who began Monday as the Ionia Community Library director, looks familiar it’s because she worked the previous 17 months part-time at the New Hampton Public Library.She has some big shoes to fill, as Jane McGrane retired last mont
