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Alden Robert Flugge dies at 84

Alden Robert Flugge, age 84, of Osage, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at his home.                A Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage with Father Raymond Burkle officiating.

Effort better, but result is the same

Although New Hampton played a better game against Crestwood their second time around, the margin of the Cadet win Monday was exactly the same as it was the first time, 29 points, as the Chickasaw girls lost a 76-47 contest at Cresco.  New Hampton

Chickasaws rally for key win

A couple of months ago — maybe even a few weeks ago — it wouldn’t have happened, but this is a vastly different New Hampton boys basketball team.   The Chickasaws dug themselves out of two holes — one early and one late — and survived a wild finis

Utterly dominating

Drew Boeding looked around the gym one last time and flashed a big smile.  “To end it like this at home — both as a team and for me individually — it can’t get much better than that,” the New Hampton senior said after New Hampton crushed the field

Chili Cook-Off donates to S.N.A.P.

Members of the First Congregational Church in Nashua held their first annual chili cook-off last week.

Off to a good start

Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School Principal Michelle Arneson paused at the door of the preschool room, looked up and smiled.“Are your ready for this? Because it can get pretty energetic in there,” she said.Say this about Arneson: She wasn’t kidd

Slow start costs Nashua-Plainfield boys

If there’s one lesson Justin Eiffler wants his young Huskies to take from the 2016-17 season, it is this: Slow starts are costly.  The Huskies re-learned that lesson again last week in a 61-45 loss to North Butler and to a lesser degree on Monday

N-P girls make progress despite three more losses

In a year where wins have been hard to come by, Nashua-Plainfield girls basketball coach Josh Smith continues to find positives.  And despite losing three games — 46-31 to North Butler, 73-43 to MFL-Mar-Mac and 47-34 to St.

Taking a pair

The good news was Brock Dietz was going to qualify for the district tournament either way; the bad news is the Nashua-Plainfield junior had no idea that the third-place match had punched his ticket.  That meant, in Dietz’s mind at least, he was wr

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