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.

Overheard outside St. Joseph Community School last week:
“I never thought I’d say this, but I am so pumped to go to school.”

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?

Our late August heat wave is coming to an end, but it might be a stormy conclusion.

Iowa’s county auditors want potential November voters to know that many of them in all likelihood will receive more than one absentee ballot request form (ABRs) in the mail.

Michelle Good is pretty sure that all of her students were pretty excited to get back to school on Monday.

Sen. Joni Ernst brought some relative good news for embattled farmers during a quick visit to New Hampton last week.

School officials at both New Hampton Community Schools and St. Joseph Community School both said that the long-awaited start to the 2020-21 school year is going off without a hitch.

Shannon Wurzer sat at her desk filling out some paperwork in a school building that has been, for the most part, filled with the sounds of silence since March 13.

A Chickasaw County Board of Health member who was accused of “sexual harassment” and “unprofessionalism” will remain on the board, thanks to a 3-2 decision by the Board of Supervisors during a contentious meeting Monday morning.

The boys were sitting around after the annual tractor pull at Steeple Days in Lourdes last month. They shot the breeze. They talked about the number of pulls that had been canceled this year. And they came up with an idea.