For the layperson, if you will, it’s one of the mysteries of school finance: How can administrators not know their exact enrollment on any given day of school? Isn’t it just a matter of counting?

New Hampton Parks and Recreation Program Director Tara Hackman loves the Halloween Parade her department and New Horizons-Chamber put on every year.
But she’s also the mother of two young children.

New Hampton High School senior Avery Throndson was doing a “football interview” a couple of weeks ago when he was asked a non-gridiron question.
Are you glad you’re going to school this year?

Duncan Slick climbed the ladder to the top of his loft barn, saw the John Deere blanket, the John Deere stuffed toy tractor and the tractor pillowcase.
The little 4-year-old stopped for a second and took it all in.

New Hampton’s City Council decided last week that it would eschew hiring a new street superintendent and, instead, will create a public works director position.

We’re not sure, quite honestly, if Beth Henningsen is going to like this story.
She’d rather this tale be about the volunteers, the donors and the recipients of an organization she started … basically anyone but herself.

It’s nothing fancy, but that sign, well, it’s a staple of Alta Vista.

Here’s one advantage to voting early: You’d have a great excuse not to watch any more of the presidential debates.

It’s really early — like the top of the first inning of a baseball game or the first couple of minutes of a football game — but area farmers say that they’re hopeful they will get better-than-expected yields, despite a growing season that was adve

Those dollar bills and that change that residents dropped into the red kettle during the 2019 holiday season is helping local school districts in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds stepped outside the New Hampton Municipal Utility building on Friday afternoon and the smile almost said it all.
“That’s impressive,” she said. “That’s what we need more of in Iowa.”

Jake Hackman concedes he’s a little worried, and why shouldn’t he be?

Scott Stillwell and Becky Donaldson have been making the trek to New Hampton the weekend after Labor Day for 35 years.

Maybe the first clue that something is different about Turkey Valley’s homecoming celebration this year was the deserted school campus Sunday afternoon.

Lisa Welter shared the statistic and let it sink in.
“Every 40 seconds in our country,” the administrator of Chickasaw County Public Health and Homecare Services said, “someone loses their life because of suicide.”