Maybe the first clue that something is different about Turkey Valley’s homecoming celebration this year was the deserted school campus Sunday afternoon.
Lisa Welter shared the statistic and let it sink in.
“Every 40 seconds in our country,” the administrator of Chickasaw County Public Health and Homecare Services said, “someone loses their life because of suicide.”
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors, after meeting in closed session for about 35 minutes, voted Tuesday to remove a member of the Board of Health three weeks after supervisors had voted to allow him to stay on the board.
As Homecoming King Jacob Reicks watches, New Hampton High School senior Claire Quirk is crowned homecoming queen during a coronation ceremony held Thursday.
New Hampton’s City Hall is closed to the public this week, although all three offices — Economic Development, Parks and Recreation and the City Clerk’s Office — in the Community Center will remain staffed.
As the reporter conducted the interview with the ISU Extension agronomist, he joked that maybe “all I need to do is get this story written and it will rain.”
Terry Basol couldn’t help but laugh.
New Hampton High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome four new members before the Chickasaws’ football team plays Waukon in the annual homecoming game this Friday.
New Hampton High School homecoming queen candidates include (front row, from left) Claire Quirk, Maddie Usher, Grace Burrett, Rylee Schumacher and Brylie Boji while the 2020 king candidates include (back row) Jacob Reicks, Conner Rochford, Carson
The number of COVID-19 positive tests jumped dramatically last week, and New Hampton High School officials made the decision Monday to move to its “hybrid” approach for classes.
The New Hampton versus Iowa Falls-Alden varsity football game will be played Friday night, but the freshman game was cancelled because members of the team may have been exposed to COVID-19.
The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is simple: Cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor.
New Hampton High School is gearing up for its annual homecoming celebration next week, but it’s going to look a whole lot different this year because of both COVID-19 and the relative earliness of this year’s homecoming football game.
Sister Vicky Andorfer may be, as MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center CEO Aaron Flugum put it, “the moral compass” of the hospital, but she also has one heck of a sense of humor.
Take this story and accompanying photo, for example.
New Hampton Economic Development Director Tammy Robinson says the first question she is asked by a business or factory looking at her city as a possible destination is almost always the same.
How many working age people do you have?
