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Maybe the first clue that something is different about Turkey Valley’s homecoming celebration this year was the deserted school campus Sunday afternoon.
But at least there will be a homecoming celebration at the Jackson Junction school.
It just didn’t start off with the annual community celebration...
Lisa Welter shared the statistic and let it sink in.
“Every 40 seconds in our country,” the administrator of Chickasaw County Public Health and Homecare Services said, “someone loses their life because of suicide.”
For a moment, all was quiet in the Community Services Building’s conference room....
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors, after meeting in closed session for about 35 minutes, voted Tuesday to remove a member of the Board of Health three weeks after supervisors had voted to allow him to stay on the board.
Little was said when the Board of Supervisors came back to open session...
As Homecoming King Jacob Reicks watches, New Hampton High School senior Claire Quirk is crowned homecoming queen during a coronation ceremony held Thursday.
New Hampton High School has some new royalty to celebrate after Jacob Reicks was crowned homecoming king and Claire Quirk was named homecoming...
New Hampton’s City Hall is closed to the public this week, although all three offices — Economic Development, Parks and Recreation and the City Clerk’s Office — in the Community Center will remain staffed.
City Clerk Karen Clemens said the decision to close the building was made after the dramatic...
As the reporter conducted the interview with the ISU Extension agronomist, he joked that maybe “all I need to do is get this story written and it will rain.”
Terry Basol couldn’t help but laugh.
“If that’s what it takes, let’s do a story every week.”
Yet, Basol remains worried that what has become...
New Hampton High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome four new members before the Chickasaws’ football team plays Waukon in the annual homecoming game this Friday.
Those being inducted include state wrestling champions David Morgan (1993) and Cory Beckman (1998, 1999), one of the best all-...
New Hampton High School homecoming queen candidates include (front row, from left) Claire Quirk, Maddie Usher, Grace Burrett, Rylee Schumacher and Brylie Boji while the 2020 king candidates include (back row) Jacob Reicks, Conner Rochford, Carson Babcock, Carter Ferrie and Avery Throndson.
New...
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.
Superintendent Jay Jurrens said the district’s criteria for going to hybrid was met because the county has more than 20...
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.
In a letter sent to parents, officials said the district had been notified that two individuals at the high...
