Hannah Heit is preparing for an epic summer experience.The New Hampton High School junior is traveling to Ethiopia as a Borlaug-Ruan International intern through the World Food Prize.Heit will join 23 other students, from 12 different states, at r

When Joe Glaser learned that he and Mick Gage had been named the Heartland Days Parade grand marshals, one thought popped into his head.Well, make that one feeling and one thought.“It was humbling,” he said, “but I kept thinking, ‘There are a lot

This Memorial Day marked a special one for Alta Vista as the town came to together to dedicate its Veterans Memorial.VFW Commander Jerome Boehmer said this memorial is special and was made possible because of the many donors that contributed to ge

On a breezy Memorial Day, the flags blew briskly in the wind at the Chickasaw County Veterans Memorial.And virtually every speaker who came to the lectern highlighted the fact that Memorial Day honors those men and women who made the ultimate sacr

This summer parents and children are invited to attend a sensory motor play group with Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton Athletic Trainer and Wellness Coordinator Maggie Peterson.“I have previous clinical experience developing sensory skills and sa

Trying to make room in county buildings, the old veterinary building has been cleaned and taken care of by Custodian Dave Gorman and Emergency Management Director AJ Seely.“We are still working to organize it,” said Seely.Gorman said for time bein

Dixie Zeien may very well avoid driving by the New Hampton Elementary School playground next year.“It’s going to be hard,” said the longtime paraprofessional who is retiring at the end of this school year.

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The screen makes even the largest big-screen television look tiny, as the boys of Iowa Big North discovered Wednesday afternoon.That’s when Hunter Carey, Jared Aegerter and Devon McClain worked on setting up the screen that will be used for the IB

The Old Bradford Pioneer Village Museum in Nashua held it’s Civil War Reenactment last weekend and while the weather didn’t cooperate that didn’t stop the men, women and children who put on the uniforms and transformed to a different time, a diffe

The Nashua-Plainfield graduating class of 2017 may have been the smallest class to graduate but they still went out in style.The 26 students were together for one last time on Sunday, May 21 at the Commencement Ceremony.Their class motto by Ralph

Scholarship, service, leadership and character are the four pillars of the National Honor Society and many of the students grow every year to become the young adults they were meant to be in leadership roles across the country with the help of thi

After months of discussion, the Nashua City Council made it official Monday night when it voted 3-2 to name a Minnesota woman as the city’s first city administrator.Rachel Leitz will move into the newly created position, and although city leaders

The trial of Curly Pig vs the Big Bad Wolf took place Tuesday by the St.

Bike safety is incredibly important with summer around the corner and kids becoming active so this time it St.