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.

Iowa BIG North is one of 19 educational programs in Iowa that will receive some additional funding from Iowa’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Advisory Council.

“Winter, where art thou?”
That was the “lead” headline on the front page of the Jan. 1, 2019, Tribune, and trust us, if we would have known what was coming, we would never have written it.

The long-rumored closing of New Hampton’s Shopko store became a reality this past spring, but the city and surrounding area came out a winner when Theisen’s agreed to purchase the building and move their store across the street.

Simon Lindquist came into his foreign exchange year in America with high expectations. He has yet to be disappointed. 
He describes his experience as “absolutely fantastic” so far, and he is loving every minute.

New Hampton’s mayor and fire chief will not be the same at the beginning of 2020, as city voters and fire department members decided 2019 needed to be a year of change.

It’s never a great sign when one sees farmers giving up their Thanksgiving holiday weekend because they still have crops in the field or post-harvest field work to complete.

When the Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army began its Red Kettle Campaign last month, Kris Markham publicly hoped it could reach it’s goal.
Privately, though, Markham was just hoping that the campaign would reach five digits.

There was much to celebrate in New Hampton’s medical community this year.