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An Autumn Drive Around New Hampton

There’s plenty to see around the area if you just slow down, take a look, and enjoy. If you bring a camera with you, you might preserve some interesting moments.

Students prepare for challenge of upcoming musical

The challenge of any musical at New Hampton High School may be a matter of time.Throw in the fact that this year’s musical is “Beauty and the Beast,” and it’s an even more demanding challenge.“But it will come together,” said Jill Cantu, who is co

Council considers North Linn rezone for Dollar General

The New Hampton City Council set dates for public hearings on a couple of rezoning requests at a meeting on Monday, and also considered various options as to what to do with more than $7000 of leftover RAGBRAI money.Paula Holschlag and Louis Koibl

Fall, where art thou?

The average high temperature for today [Friday] is 59 degrees, and the average low is 38.Today’s forecast calls for a high in the mid-70s and overnight low in the upper 50s.What the heck is going on?Based on climate data from previous years, there

Enrollment drop not as bad as expected

The bad news is New Hampton Community Schools has seen its enrollment drop from a year ago.The good news?

Nine candidates seek city offices in Nashua

Nashua residents won’t be lacking for options when it comes to next month’s city elections; in fact, they have nine candidates to choose from.Early voting has started for the Nov.

Cute costume!

Little Logan Sinnwell takes part in the Nashua Park Board Halloween party recently at Cedar View Park, and if Logan needs more candy — and really what child doesn’t? — the Nashua City Council on Monday announced that city-wide trick-or-treating wi

Showing off at Moms and Muffins!

Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School first-graders proudly show their mothers the work they have been doing this year during a Moms and Muffins event held that the school recently.

As election nears, Nashua City Council loses member

The Nashua City Council lost one of its five members Monday night, when Mayor Angie Dietz announced that she had received a letter of resignation from Kyle Lane.Lane was not at the meeting, and Dietz said he cites his “other committments” that did

Hubbell makes his pitch during campaign stop in city

Iowa gubernatorial candidate Fred Hubbell says the first order of business for the next Iowa governor will be to clean up Iowa’s financial mess.And he thinks he’s just the guy to do it.“We need someone to take care of this fiscal mess,” he said Th

All the way back from ‘The Fire!’

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.

Farm couple celebrated for doing it right

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.

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Veterans to celebrate their ‘day’

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.

Hospital set to begin its renovation

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, patien

Shooting victim is expected to recover

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 continui

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