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Nashua-Plainfield senior is Presidential Scholars candidate

A Nashua-Plainfield High School senior has been named a candidate in U.S.

Historic church goes Scottish

Surprises around every corner, kilts, bagpipes and food made for a great celebration at the historic Little Brown Church Sunday.In other words, it wasn’t your typical Sunday service at “The Church in the Wildwood.” After all, how often does a bagp

Cowboy Poetry hits the right notes once again

Like all great art, love and death were the themes at the 14th Cowboy Poetry event on Friday and Saturday at the Starlite Ballroom in Lawler, with an infusion of philanthropy.It was also a first: The first Cowboy Poetry event hosted by the Lawler

School in great financial shape, but for how long?

The good news is that New Hampton Community Schools has quite possibly never been in better financial shape.The bad news is school finances are always changing, so if “nothing changes” in NewHampton, that rosy financial picture won’t last all that

Schools cancel classes Thursday; one more cold night in store for area

Area schoolchildren will get a fourth straight day off from school Thursday as superintendents called off classes as the area braced for another night of dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills.

Yep, it's really cold out there!

This isn’t exactly a news flash because anyone who has stepped outside lately knows it’s cold outside.
And the kicker is that it’s supposedly going to get even colder Wednesday night.

Manufacturer has plenty to celebrate

It’s not every day that a U.S.

New Hampton advances three in large-group speech

New Hampton High School large-group speech coach Kassie Bercik understands that some of her students wanted “more” at the district contest last week, but she wants all of her students to know that they made her proud.“Everyone wants a [Divison] I

Welcome to the Arctic

Lacey McGrath put it simply when the Mercy Family Clinic nurse practitioner was asked Sunday about this week’s frigid forecast.“It’s not safe, period,” she said of temperatures that are expect- ed to dip to near 30 below both Wednesday and Thursda

Power Club to host winter event Saturday

A home-grown corn waffle breakfast, chili cook-off and “sleigh mania” (or wagon mania, depending on the weather) are some immediate reasons to attend the Northeast Iowa Antique Engine and Power Club’s second annual breakfast on Saturday, Feb.

City Council OKs crosswalk on Milwaukee

Companies on Milwaukee Street dominated the action at a quick City Council meeting Monday.Zip’s AW Direct President Paul Rottinghaus spoke on the company request to add a pedestrian crosswalk near the intersection of North Maple Avenue across West

Supervisors approve software, discuss attorney’s budget

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors approved a sharing agreement for legal case management software called ProLaw that it can back out of with 30 days of notice, and took up the budget and staffing for the County Attorney’s Office in a discu

School says yes to soccer

The world’s most popular sport is coming to New Hampton High School, thanks to a unanimous vote by the School Board Monday night.Board members voted to add soccer to its sports offerings, beginning in the 2019-20 school year, after hearing from a

Grassley touts ability to reach across aisle

Let’s be perfectly frank here: U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and U.S. Sen.

Well, that turned into nothing

The latest storm to hit the New Hampton area turned out to be one gigantic dud, but it certainly messed up plenty of schedules along the way.After virtually every school in Northeast Iowa called off classes and canceled extra-curricular activities

Troyna settling into new role at helm

Shirley Troyna is settling in as the Chickasaw County Recorder. Troyna has worked two decades in the office, which is when then newly-elected Recorder Cindy Messersmith hired her away from the treasurer’s office.

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