New Hampton’s new city clerk — or soon-to-be new city clerk to be exact — can’t wait to get started, but Karen Clemens is also beyond grateful that she has a few more months of mentoring from the woman she will replace.

In the end, New Hampton School Board members decided to play it safe Monday night when they agreed to sell $9.415 million in bonds this June instead of waiting until the district actually needed the money.

The Iowa Arts Community in general and the community of Fredericksburg in particular felt a giant loss on Sunday, when Constance "Connie" Mohr passed away at the age of 91 at New Hampton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

For the first time in almost 2 1/2 years, the Nashua Police Department finally has three full-time officers.
The Nashua City Council has approved the hiring of Ben Scholl, and the contract was signed recently by both parties.

Those wipes may be advertised as “flushable,” but they are causing havoc for the city of Nashua, and on Monday, Sewer Superintendent Nick Henningsen reported to the City Council that both pumps went down at the same time and the cause were those s

When teachers at New Hampton Community Schools gathered Monday for a professional development day, one of the items on the agenda was updating the school’s crisis plans.

Chickasaw County’s public librarians are hoping it’s nothing more than rumors, but they are attempting to mobilize support because of fears that the county will either cut or reduce funding to the county’s six libraries.

Go back three years, when Kassidy Pfaffle was an eighth-grader at New Hampton Middle School, and she would have told you she was going to make her mark in high school in athletics.

Matthew Kuhn made his pitch recently, and he appeared to find a sympathetic ear with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Every year, thousands of people lose money — from a few dollars to a life’s savings — to phone and computer scams.

When New Hampton Kindergarten teacher Lynn Ries first started teaching 40 years ago, she didn’t imagine the possibility of a student attending class remotely.
“No, I didn’t,” she chuckled.

Nashua-Plainfield High School Principal Scott Striegel was excited to announce KIMT’s Golden Apple award winner, Nashua-Plainfield’s own Sam Brown.

A Chickasaw County woman has claimed a $100,000 lottery prize.
Maria Janssen, 65, of Nashua was in shock after she claimed the 16th of 17 top prizes of $100,000 available in the lottery’s “$100,000 Mega Crossword” scratch game.

Throw out that packaged chicken salad you picked up at Fareway. 
It could be contaminated with salmonella.

Iowa’s governor had some relatively good news for Iowa schools — especially rural districts — during a stop in Chickasaw County last week.