Earlier this month, Kevin Potratz picked up Ramsey Bark, Blaine Bark and Nate Masters for a “road trip.”These three young men had been teammates of Potratz’s late son, Alex, who died in a tragic accident in September 2013.They were also players fo
The Nashua-Plainfield Lions Club members have been busy ahead of time selling tickets for their annual fish fry which was held on Friday evening at the Nashua Town and Country Club.The club members fried 640 pounds of fish and brought in homemade
If one were to walk into Suzy Turner’s Nashua-Plainfield high school classroom the night before the National History Day district competition, the words that would come to mind might be “disorganization,” “mayhem” or “upheaval.”Or maybe, just “tot
The Chickasaw County Conservation Board will get its land after all after the Board of Supervisors Monday voted 4-0, with one abstention, to accept a 130.7-acre parcel of land from the Iowa Department of Transportation.The decision came after a la
It wasn’t your typical physical education day at New Hampton High School on Friday.Heck, even the school’s two administrators — Principal Sarah Updegraff and Activities Director Brad Schmitt — couldn’t stay away from the inflatable obstacle cours
The desserts were downright tasty, but then again, so was the music.And for New Hampton Middle School Band Director, it’s the music that matters when it comes to the annual Jazz Dessert Concert that was held Friday night at New Hampton High Schoo
Elisa Russ has been to every corner of Iowa. She’s traveled to conventions in Indiana and Michigan. She’s visited Washington, D.C.And she jetted off to South Africa, too ...
It’s the flu season that just doesn’t want to end.School and hospital officials are both asking area residents to remain vigilant when it comes to influenza as New Hampton suffers through one of its worst outbreaks in years.“We have 37 kids gone
New Hampton has taken “baby steps” when it comes to preparing for RAGBRAI, but Mayor Deb Larsen told the City Council Monday night that planning will really pick up steam early next month.Larsen told the council that a RAGBRAI Committee has been
New Hampton Community Schools will begin raising the money for its new building project on May 1, the day the district plans to sell $10 million in bonds.The School Board made the decision Monday night to sell only a portion of the bonds needed t
Author Linda McCann was at the Nashua Public Library on Saturday discussing her newly released book “Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Northeast Iowa.” McCann has been working on this book for months, talking with a dozen men who were in the C
When something weighs 24,000 pounds, you place it right where you want it.Just ask the folks at Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home, who had a 24,000-pound crematory placed Tuesday into what will become the area’s only crematorium.“It’s not like you ca
There was a lot of “falling down” during gym class on Monday afternoon, when the Nashua-Plainfield students began their roller skating unit for gym class.Physical Education Teacher Jill Kalvig will have her students roller skating at the Husky We
Ken Rasing vividly recalls the “old days” of emergency management.A call would go out for EMS personnel, and instead of receiving an address, “they’d tell us to go to the blue silo and turn left.”Emergency management has drastically changed durin
