The new gym and commons area were packed last Thursday night as community members came out to see what exactly New Hampton High School has been up to these last two weeks. 

Vaping, drug use, and mental health issues have become even more significant problems in this community and county in recent years, especially in the area of young people. 

The first major winter storm of the season was, to some at least, a “dud.”
Still, it gave us a potpourri of weather conditions — ranging from snow, freezing rain, sleet, frigid temperatures and plenty of wind.

There’s a moment as Dee Boeding shares the saga when she must pause, and during that instant, it’s no longer January 2020 but instead it’s Oct. 8, 2019.

When the Carey family is teaching the sport of pickleball, they are patient, kind and considerate.
Going up against each other, they’re ruthless.

The members of the New Hampton Park Board come from vastly different backgrounds, but when they gathered last Wednesday night — as they do once a month January to December — they shared a common bond: A love for the city’s parks and its recreation

Parker Poor has been beating the odds his whole life, and he’s done so with a smile that, in a word, is infectious.

We are now less  than three weeks away from that event that always has Iowa leading the national news.

It was short and sweet for New Hampton’s new mayor and the City Council last week when they held their first meeting of 2020.
Enjoy it while it lasts, and quick, “easy” meetings aren’t going to be around all that long.

Jill Flugum’s day begins at 7:45 a.m. when she readies her classroom and herself for her day as a kindergarten teacher at St. Joseph Community School. 

Tom Steyer believes one way Democrats can beat Donald Trump in 2020 is to run an outside-of-the-box candidate, and guess what?
That describes the California billionaire to a proverbial T.

It was — as Maddie Hoeck put it so well — “nine hours of agony.”

Bobby Schwickerath laughed last week when he was asked if he was ready for Monday night’s City Council meeting?

It was a saga that actually began at the end of 2018 when Chickasaw Ambulance Service owner and operator Jeremy McGrath notified Chickasaw County Ambulance Council Chairman Steve Geerts that he was going to opt out of its contract.

The 2019-20 school year was less than a month away from commencing this summer, and New Hampton Community Schools Jay Jurrens sat in his office and espoused confidence.