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College gallery to feature works by NHHS art teacher

New Hampton High School art teacher Melissa Nelson will be the featured artist in the Ray Frederick Gallery on the Marshalltown Community College campus.Her exhibit, entitled “Unfinished/Finished: Art as an Art Teacher,” opens with a reception fro

School Board juggles calendar

The New Hampton School Board’s goal Monday night was simple: Get the end of the school year back into May.Mission accomplished … but it lasted all of one day.“I really would like us to see if we can make this work so that we’re done by May 31,” Bo

Council looks for solutions on wastewater

New Hampton has received a letter on inquiry from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources citing “failure to meet effluent limits.”Discharge monitoring reports from the wastewater treatment plant showed it exceeded ammonia effluent limits contain

Baby’s murder will be with those who worked it for a long time

Chickasaw County Chief Deputy Reed Palo was one of the first to arrive at the Alta Vista apartment on Aug.

Broken gas pipe leads to explosion in mobile home

A broken gas line caused an explosion at a mobile home in Parkview Court on New Hampton’s east side Wednesday morning, and New Hampton firefighters were on the scene for almost six hours.“The good news is no one was injured,” New Hampton Fire Chie

Crews work to keep up with ‘Snowmageddon’

When Chickasaw County residents call County Engineer Dusten Rolando, they usually want to know one thing.“Can you get to us today?”“The objective is to get to everybody so everybody can get out,” Rolando said, “at least a path.”There are some 20 r

Imagine this, another storm is on the way

Recap the latest storm, warn about the next approaching weather system, repeat.That’s been the routine, at least lately, at the National Weather Service office in La Crosse, Wisconsin.And this week is no exception.— For more on this story, see the

Nashua City Council approves first reading of curfew ordinance

The Nashua City Council Monday night adopted the first reading of an ordinance that would provide a curfew for minors in the city.After much discussion about the issues that curfew proponents say are going on “after dark” in the city, council memb

CSS Board seeks to recover funds from departing county

The County Social Services 28E Governing Board earlier this month heard from its attorney regarding mediation with Kossuth County and turned down the proposal in order to seek a state audit or arbitration to recover $315,791 in remaining funds the

Just hanging at the library

It’s a quiet Wednesday noon hour at the New Hampton Public Library.

Block learning challenges

Winter weather slowed progress in special block classes during the “Midmester Academy” at New Hampton Middle School, but nevertheless, classes persisted. The “Midmester Academy” began Feb.

Blame all this winter on ‘waves’

Outside the Miller Apartments in New Hampton sits a cutout of a snowman holding a sign that says, “Let it snow.”Come on, be honest, you’re ready to punch that snowman in the face, aren’t you?Since Jan.

Landfill may be closed but still must be maintained

A former landfill may be closed but it still has to be maintained.The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors last week approved an Iowa Department of Natural Resources permit for treatment agreement and supplemental user agreement on landfill leach

Rural areas outpace cities in growth

Rural areas of Chickasaw County showed greater growth than urban areas as measured by new construction value, when accounting for rollbacks but not exemptions.Increase in taxable value of rural areas grew by $11.85 million but $8.64 million was “i

Supervisors discuss new county building

Board of Supervisors meeting attendee Rick Holthaus got on Monday’s agenda to discuss a draft of a request for proposals (RFP) for the future county building at 302 E.

Winter’s vengeance

Old Man Winter’s latest appearance in and around Chickasaw County was as nasty as advertised.About the only thing missing from the storm that started Monday night and wreaked havoc through Wednesday was the arctic cold of a couple of weeks ago, bu

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