Jack Seelhammer wasn’t going to pull any punches; his New Hampton softball team faced a must-win situation on Thursday night.

Even before Jordan Holthaus started shooting at the state meet Saturday, he was taking deep breaths. The kind that someone takes that’s trying to get rid of some anxiety. 

Mabel Josephine Owens, age 102 of Northridge CA, formerly of New Hampton, Iowa, died peacefully Saturday January 27, 2018, at her home in Northridge.

Rebecca L. (Dowd) Sherrod, age 63 of Gretna, Louisiana, died May 13, 2018, at the Ochsner Medical Center in Gretna. 

Alvina Katherine Bodensteiner, age 97 of Rapid City, North Dakota, formerly of Waucoma, Iowa died October 10, 2017 at the Rapid City Hospice House.

The state coed golf tournament prides itself on being a relaxed affair, but just after “making the turn” on Tuesday, New Hampton’s Ryan Anderson and Allison Nuss decided maybe they were too relaxed.

Turkey Valley scored a run in each of the middle three innings in game one at Starmont Monday and with good pitching, that was more than enough to win the first game of the doubleheader, 3-0.

Voters — are at least a few of them — headed to the polls in Chickasaw County Tuesday to pick their party’s nominees for the upcoming general election, but that low voter turnout, less than 9.7 percent, seemed to validate County Auditor Joan Knoll