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A muddy mess

The weather earlier this week was quite simply the last thing New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens wanted to see.And he wasn’t alone in that thought.

Students, families skate to better health

The past couple of weeks, the Nashua-Plainfield Elementary students in Jill Kalvig’s physical education class have had more gym time, smiles and laughing than other units.The students have been asking since the beginning of the school year and it

Nashua-Plainfield Junior High Band plays at Waverly contest

Weather and missed practice time could not discourage the talented Nashua-Plainfield Junior High Band, which overcame recent weather that impeded practice time to earn a “Superior” rating at the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association Large Group C

Ambulance situation remains up in air

The Chickasaw County Ambulance Council has a little more than 3 1/2 months to find a provider, yet at a meeting Tuesday night, council members made little headway on finalizing a request for proposals (RFP) that they hope to send out by April 1.An

Board ‘buys down’ insurance increase

Chickasaw County will continue to buy down an increase in employee health insurance premiums using reserve funds and some new funds, as discussed on Monday.Renewal rates from Wellmark came in at what would have been almost an 8 percent increase ov

Love for music leads to new business for Nashua woman

Turning her love of music into a career is exactly what Hannah Pederson is doing while raising her three young children.

It’s March Madness with a bit of a twist

At the very least the titles — “Dirt on My Shirt,” “Ivan,” “The Grapes of Math,” and “Diary of a Worm” — sound cool as Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School kicked off its own version of March Madness with an assembly to kick off a new reading progr

Sticking around at Little Brown Church

After surviving the winter in Iowa, the Rev.

Nashua-Plainfield earns three Division I ratings at state

Weather delays and postponements has made this speech season one to remember for the Nashua-Plainfield students, but it has all paid off for the students who went to the state individual speech contest in Forest City on Saturday.Isaac Swaney, Tann

Competition fuels law student

Noah Stochl loves to compete — always has and always will.The 2013 New Hampton High School graduate showed his competitive fire on the foot- ball field, basketball court, golf course and baseball diamond as a Chickasaw, and he played football and

Retirement opens door for new cluster bookkeeper

As a member of the St.

New Hampton students shine at Dorian

Seven members of the New Hampton High School Band nominated by Director Justin Adam were selected by the Dorian Honor Band committee to participate in the two festival massed bands and the Dorian Band Festival Grand Concert which culminated the Lu

Lions pull off another winner with breakfast

Randy Nosbisch couldn’t help but chuckle when the New Hampton Lions Club president was asked how Sunday’s Pancake and French Toast Breakfast went.“Well, the good news is that we never really change jobs with this,” he said, “so we pretty much know

A whole lot of fun and games!

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

School levy rate will drop next year

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

Supervisors come up with plan for ‘deficiencies’

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.

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