“Believe in you, graduate” was the message from Principal Scott Striegel on Friday afternoon when the grades 7-9 met in the gym to make a promise to themselves.Iowa’s graduation rate has increased in recent years to 90.8 percent.

 
New Hampton bounced back in a big way Friday night as the Chickasaws used a strong run game and a suffocating defense to roll past Osage 32-6 in Class 2A, District 2 play.

New Hampton and Osage will kick off their varsity football game at 6 p.m. because of weather conditions.
The fresh-soph game, which was scheduled to start at 4:45 p.m., has been postponed.

It will be a feast for both the ears and the eyes on Sunday in New Hampton, as the Carnegie Cultural Center will host “A Day of Art,” starting at noon with a performance by the University of Iowa College of Music piano students at Trinity Lutheran

Residents expressed outrage when the discussion of a pay raise for the City Council members and the mayor came up at Monday evening’s meeting.The current pay for a Council member is $30 a meeting; this does not include special session meetings and

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors accepted the resignation of Chickasaw County Attorney Pat Wegman at the weekly meeting on Monday, then appointed local attorney Jennifer Schwickerath to take Wegman’s place for the remainder of Wegman’s te

New Hampton's economic development director definitely sees progress when it comes to “filling” the city's Main Street.But Tammy Robinson is also renewing her call to potential entrepreneurs that New Hampton is open for business.“The big

Give Jaci Tweeten a soapbox for just a few minutes, and she can tell you — eloquently yet simply — why 4-H matters.“You know, when people ask me that,” the Chickasaw County ISU Extension youth coordinator said, “I guess my best answer is this: The