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New Hampton Mayor Deb Larsen joins Dungey’s Furniture and Flooring owners Trace and Mark Dungey, their wives and their employees to “cut the ribbon” celebrating the new store that opened in New Hampton in August. The ribbon cutting came almost three years after a fire destroyed Dungey’s original...
The Leon and Barb Sheets family of Chickasaw County was recognized with the Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award on Friday at the Republic Community Church, near Ionia. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey presented the award to Leon and Barb at the church, where the two of them are a part of the...
A.J. Seely, Chickasaw County Emergency Management Coordinator, announced last week that the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office is now able to receive emergency text messages.“Simply text 911 the message and it will be received by the dispatcher,” said Seely. “911 phone calls are always preferred,...
It’s been years since New Hampton’s Fae Stein American Legion Post 38 has held a fundraiser, yet the costs haven’t gone away.“We have ammunition costs, rifle maintenance costs and all that,” Legion Cmdr. Brian Quirk said, “and we felt like it was time to do something. It’s not just about raising...
Patients, please have patience.Major improvements are in store at the local hospital, with renovations to emergency, inpatient, and registration areas starting next week.The work’s going to take about a year-and-a-half, and in the meantime, patients, visitors and staff are asked to be tolerant and...
The 8-year-old boy injured by a round fired at a Chickasaw County gun range Sunday is in stable condition with “non-life-threatening” injuries, according to Chickasaw County Sheriff Martin Hemann.Hemann said this week that authorities are continuing to investigate the incident that happened Sunday...
Between a trip to Fayette County early Monday morning and a stop in Bremer County Monday afternoon, Iowa U.S. Senator Joni Ernst spent the late Monday morning hours in Chickasaw County, taking a close look at downtown New Hampton.Ernst paid a visit to the folks at New Hampton Economic Development,...
Dennis Miller stood next to the wall that bore the names of the 58,318 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam.Moments before, the Fredericksburg man found the name of one of his Waterloo West High School classmates — Samuel Walthour Jr. — and he talked about the emotions he was...
Jill Eike walked out the door of the Carnegie Cultural Center Sunday evening a little after 6:30 p.m.“I’m leaving the Carnegie, and my feet are killing me,” she said, but her voice still was filled with enthusiasm. “Wow, what a day.”Yes, indeed, as the little museum in New Hampton had itself one...
Trace Dungey was adamant.“You really have to see this,” he said as he took the reporter into his office at the new Dungey’s Furniture and Flooring store. “I mean it will blow you away.”And there, next to pictures of his three children, sat a jar — one filled with coins that had obviously been...
