As far as New Hampton speech coach Jason Speltz is concerned, any team that finished with 12 Division I ratings at the state individual contest has something going for it.The fact that New Hampton did that in a year like this, when the weather wre

The brick is in, the walls are up and when walking around what will be New Hampton’s soon-to-be middle school, one can definitely see a school building taking shape.“I know I say this almost every time we’ve done an update,” Superintendent Jay Jur

The weather earlier this week was quite simply the last thing New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens wanted to see.And he wasn’t alone in that thought.

The past couple of weeks, the Nashua-Plainfield Elementary students in Jill Kalvig’s physical education class have had more gym time, smiles and laughing than other units.The students have been asking since the beginning of the school year and it

Weather and missed practice time could not discourage the talented Nashua-Plainfield Junior High Band, which overcame recent weather that impeded practice time to earn a “Superior” rating at the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association Large Group C

The Chickasaw County Ambulance Council has a little more than 3 1/2 months to find a provider, yet at a meeting Tuesday night, council members made little headway on finalizing a request for proposals (RFP) that they hope to send out by April 1.An

Chickasaw County will continue to buy down an increase in employee health insurance premiums using reserve funds and some new funds, as discussed on Monday.Renewal rates from Wellmark came in at what would have been almost an 8 percent increase ov

Turning her love of music into a career is exactly what Hannah Pederson is doing while raising her three young children.

At the very least the titles — “Dirt on My Shirt,” “Ivan,” “The Grapes of Math,” and “Diary of a Worm” — sound cool as Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School kicked off its own version of March Madness with an assembly to kick off a new reading progr

After surviving the winter in Iowa, the Rev.

Weather delays and postponements has made this speech season one to remember for the Nashua-Plainfield students, but it has all paid off for the students who went to the state individual speech contest in Forest City on Saturday.Isaac Swaney, Tann

Noah Stochl loves to compete — always has and always will.The 2013 New Hampton High School graduate showed his competitive fire on the foot- ball field, basketball court, golf course and baseball diamond as a Chickasaw, and he played football and

As a member of the St.

Seven members of the New Hampton High School Band nominated by Director Justin Adam were selected by the Dorian Honor Band committee to participate in the two festival massed bands and the Dorian Band Festival Grand Concert which culminated the Lu

Randy Nosbisch couldn’t help but chuckle when the New Hampton Lions Club president was asked how Sunday’s Pancake and French Toast Breakfast went.“Well, the good news is that we never really change jobs with this,” he said, “so we pretty much know