Children’s enthusiasm for the Elementary Carnival on Friday was palpable.Like many others, fourth-grader Belle Broughton arrived before the games opened and had been there hanging out with her friends for the whole two-plus hours of games.Her favo
If you don’t think school finances are complicated, the rebuttal would be New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens’ budget presentation to the School Board during a special meeting last week.Enrollment in the school district dropped 19 students from
The Chickasaw County Financial Report on the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, was presented to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday [March 5].Of public interest is the “Management Letter” portion, in which private auditors Hacker, Nelson and Co.
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to effectively reduce the combined county tax asking to $8.74575 per $1,000 assessed valuation.That’s nearly 13 cents higher than the rate set last year, nearly a 1.5 percent increase, but nearly
The New Hampton City Council will only contribute up to $50 of the legal fees of the Chickasaw County Ambulance Council for paying an outside attorney to draft a bid request to provide ambulance service.Mayor Deb Larsen asked the council if it wou
It was the shortest Parade of Bands Concert in recent memory, maybe of all time, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying by New Hampton’s band directors and their students.In other words, blame Old Man Winter.“I think I had my each of my bands for some
The New Hampton Elementary Carnival Committee runs a “well-oiled machine” by repeating what works, say its two co-chairs, TLC Coordinator Michelle Hoy and fourth-grade teacher Dennis Pagel, who have a few decades on the committee between them.Prin
A birthday celebration brought children and their parents to the Nashua Public Library on Saturday morning during the Read Across America Day in honor of Dr.
The Nashua City Council Monday night approved two ordinances that proponents say will to keep Nashua minors safe and on the right track.Both ordinances — one puts into place a city-wide curfew while the other is a so-called “social hosting” law de
Auditions, practice and final performance all in a week is what the Nashua-Plainfield Elementary students will be doing this week with the help of two directors.Sign up sheets were sent home with the students and auditions were held on Monday for
Blizzards, road closures and cold temperatures did not stop Nashua-Plainfield speech students from shining at the district Individual speech contest on Feb.
Blizzards, road closures and cold temperatures did not stop Nashua-Plainfield speech students from shining at the district Individual speech contest on Feb.
Students grades 6-12 came together on woodwinds, brass, rhythm, piano and bass in an offbeat, ragtime sort of way while families brought in all manner of moist confections as New Hampton Community Schools presented the annual Jazz Dessert Concert
Randy Nosbisch admits that he and his fellow New Hampton Lions Club members are “scrambling” just a little bit more this year when it comes to the organization’s annual Pancake and French Toast Breakfast.After all, as Nosbisch put it, “this was To
Say this about the two men who represent Chickasaw County in the Iowa Legislature, they cover a lot of ground each month at the Chickasaw County Farm Bureau’s legislative forums.And Saturday was no exception as State Sen. Waylon Brown, R-St.
