In a meeting that lasted a mere eight minutes Monday night, the New Hampton City Council set March 4 as the date for a public hearing on the city’s annual budget and tax levy.What that budget and levy will look like is still up in the air.The Fina
The Nashua-Plainfield Middle School band students were able to attend the Marion Honor Band and show their talents to the audience after the competition was postponed due to the weather.Student participants auditioned for chair placements at 8:30
Nashua-Plainfield Speech students attended the State Group Speech Contest on Saturday.The speech students traveled to Waterloo West High School for the State Large Group Speech Contest where three groups presented their Short Film, Musical Theater
Lili Chatman wanted no part of Oratory Presentation Night.“Oh my gosh, to stand up in front of a bunch of people I don’t know and give a speech,” the New Hampton Middle School eighth-grader said. “That was kind of terrifying.
It may say something about the closeness of the New Hampton large-group speech team that as happy as Will and Elliot Throndson were when they found out they had been selected to attend the All-State Speech Festival, they were more disappointed tha
The Nashua-Plainfield Elementary students helped the Nashua Splash Pad Committee to approach its goal of putting a splash pad in Cedar View Park.A splash pad is a recreation area for water play which often includes various features that sprinkle o
This Valentine’s Day, comes the story of two lovebirds brought together by the A & W Root Beer in Charles City, who went on to make their home in Nashua.Dick Baldwin was a regular customer.
Snow, below-zero temperatures, even colder wind chills, blowing snow and bitter cold kept many home this last week unless they had to be somewhere.The bitter cold kept Nashua-Plainfield students home Monday through Thursday but they were back to s
A former Alta Vista mother has been found guilty in the 2017 death of her son.
After four hours of deliberation, jurors found 21-year-old Cheyanne Harris guilty of first-degree murder and child endangerment causing death.
More winter weather appears on the way for Chickasaw County, and the National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory from 3 p.m. Wednesday to 6 p.m. Thursday.
A cement repaving project from Lawler to the Howard County line was let through the Department of Transportation in mid-January, County Engineer Dusten Rolando told the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors on Monday [Jan.
Chickasaw County Veterans Affairs Director Lindsay Zenner, who said she took office in July 2017, will be going “full-time” as budgeted by the Veterans Affairs Commission, effective today (Friday) after lengthy consideration and a 4-1 vote by the
Given the option to enter closed session, County Engineer Dusten Rolando chose to keep discussion of his job performance survey and contract for fiscal 2020 in open session when the Chickasaw and Floyd County boards of supervisors teleconferenced
Data Processing Director Ray Armel presented pricing options for the ProLaw software through the Iowa County Attorneys Case Management Project, and the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors approved the quote.The purpose of the ICACMP, the sharing
