Brian Quirk will tell you he was more than a little worried.
“It was 10:30 and I wasn’t sure anyone was coming,” said the New Hampton Fae Stine American Legion Post 38 commander. “But it all turned out pretty nicely.”
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting on Thursday in reaction to a state auditor’s report issued last Wednesday afternoon and made public on Thursday morning.
Area veterans and their families and friends gathered Monday night for an event at the Municipal Hall in Alta Vista, where Sergeant Gilbert Rosenbaum was awarded a “Quilt of Valor.”
Maybe only those who have been in plays and musicals will appreciate the story, but honestly, half the fun — maybe more — of being a “drama person” is the off-the-wall stuff that takes place at rehearsals.
Chickasaw County officials need to better determine and document the public purpose of certain expenditures, according to Iowa State Auditor Mary Mosiman.
Members of “The Addams Family” had their lives change forever over the weekend as Nashua-Plainfield High School students presented the always-fun musical.
A candlelight vigil in memory of little Sterling Daniel Koehn had just ended Saturday night, and Kim Judge, the Alta Vista woman who organized the event, had but one question as her friends gathered around her.
“Can we cry now?”
The corn and bean harvest is about two weeks behind schedule in northern Iowa, but ISU Extension Field Agronomist Terry Basol said that’s about what he expected.
Chickasaw County Sheriff Marty Hemann discussed the recent case of an Alta Vista couple charged with murder in the death of of their 4-month-old infant at the Monday morning meeting of the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors.
New Hampton Community Schools’ officials will have to wait an extra 12 days to find out what kind of bids they will receive for the $19.415 million construction project.
