Give Jaci Tweeten a soapbox for just a few minutes, and she can tell you — eloquently yet simply — why 4-H matters.“You know, when people ask me that,” the Chickasaw County ISU Extension youth coordinator said, “I guess my best answer is this: The

The hope for committee members is that bicycles will be on the TRIBE Trail before the snow flies.And really, it’s more than a hope for folks like Rick Kramer, Megan Gleason and Brian Quirk.

Turkey Valley homecoming King and Queen Cale Reicks and Ashton Kout are flanked by the 2016 king and queen, Garrison Kruse and Brooke Herold, following the coronation ceremony that was held at the school Thursday night in between the junior varsit

It’s the time of year when area crop farmers do a lot of waiting.“Most of the guys I talk to are getting their equipment ready, watching the fields and waiting for the right moment to get after it,” said Terry Basol, Iowa State University Extensio

Several area high school students were able to take an up-close-and-personal look at some manufacturing jobs in New Hampton on Wednesday, thanks in part to Northeast Iowa Community College and Iowa Workforce Development.The field trip was part of

Mark Dungey sat in a recliner in the furniture store he and his brother Trace own and talked about the odyssey the last three years has been.“Sometimes, the fire seems like yesterday,” he said.

Austin Seely of the Chickasaw County Emergency Management Agency addressed the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors with a list of complaints and concerns at Monday’s meeting, before getting down to business.Seely eventually talked to the board a

For the first time in 166 years of weather records, two Atlantic Category 4 hurricanes made landfall in the United States in the same year.Harvey and Irma left destruction and chaos in their path but when the winds calmed down and the water recede

Nashua voters will have plenty to choose from when they head to the polls Nov.

     Since Turkey Valley won't be having a Homecoming football game this Friday — Central forfeited due to a lack of healthy players — the queen was crowned an evening sooner than usual.

Nashua’s new police chief is ready for the new responsibilities he will take on after he was tabbed by Nashua Mayor Angie Dietz to take over for Paul Becthold.Becthold resigned in early September after he was named West Union’s police chief, and a

The uniforms, instruments, traveling and 90-degree heat made for a long day for the Nashua-Plainfield Marching Band Saturday.But boy oh boy, it was worth it as the band came home with a first-place trophy from the Marshalltown Oktemberfest Parade

The write-in winner of one of the Nashua-Plainfield School Board seats earlier this month has decided to accept the position.“I thought about it for quite a few years and if people had that much confidence in me, thought I better accept,” said Pat

Jill Eike of the Carnegie Cultural Center is thrilled to be hanging the work of Ann McGregor on the walls.“The way she captures the ecology and beauty of our environment is exceptional,” Eike said.

he wait staff at the Pub at the Pinicon could have used some translators around lunchtime on Thursday.Someone who could pronounce “pork chop” in about four different languages would have been helpful.The Pub played host to a luncheon populated by