The proposed TRIBE Trail took a giant step toward becoming a reality last week when officials were notified that it had received a $75,000 grant.“It’s a big one, and really gets us to work on ‘Phase 1’ of the project,” New Hampton Parks and Recrea
If you pass a New Hampton Light Plant employee working on a power line or trimming a tree these days, don’t look twice.Yes, those hard hats are pink.October is Breast Cancer Awareness and the “color” marking breast cancer is pink, and a few weeks
As of August, Homeland Energy Solutions in Lawler has made over the 1 billion gallons of ethanol that was all produced locally! Kevin Howes, plant manager, said Homeland Energy Solutions has expanded through optimization first and then capital inv
The New Hampton Tribune will once again honor area veterans during Veterans Day week with a commemorative special section.Tribune General Manager Kim Bucknell announced recently that the newspaper would once again publish its Veterans Day Commemor
The weather was perfect — well, almost — and the Exhibit A was the number of people who turned out for Tuesday evening’s Halloween Hikes at Twin Ponds Nature Center.“A frost last night would have cut down on the mosquitoes,” Chickasaw County Conse
No matter what happens in Indianapolis next week, Michael Tupper knows this odyssey was worth it.The 2014 New Hampton High School graduate and 2015-16 state FFA president is running for one of nine national FFA officer positions, and he has spent
Work continues at Adolph Munson Park as the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors look to find homes for the many artifacts located at the park.Chickasaw County entities including the Old Bradford Pioneer Museum, Carnegie Cultural Center and the C
St. John Lutheran Church hosted a Town Hall meeting about the underage drinking and drug problem in Nashua and Chickasaw County. Members of the Nashua Police Department and St.
National Hot Lunch Week is a fun time to recognize and honor the food service workers in the district who are up early to serve breakfast and lunch to the school children every day. This year National Hot Lunch will be celebrated Oct.
Over the years, Steve Geerts figures more than 100 New Hampton schoolchildren have experienced a “special ride” to school.And the longtime New Hampton fire chief figures all those kids have deserved all those rides because they’ve helped educate t
A half a country, they gathered to raise money for a great cause and to remember a man many of them had never met.They boarded a cruise boat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and they thought of a man who had loved New Hampton and Chickasaw County with al
