The kids — and not to mention a few adults — filled the floor at the New Hampton Community Center last Friday.
And they built a bunch of cool contraptions with Legos ... all for the love of reading.

  It may have taken 28 games to get it done, but Turkey Valley’s girls persevered to win their first game of the season when they played at Riceville Tuesday.    The 9-8 Turkey Valley victory snapped a three-game winning streak by the Wildcats, wh

Make it three in a row for the New Hampton baseball team.

Colleen Welch Gebel, 83, of Charles City, died Thursday, June 29, 2017, at the Floyd County Medical Center in Charles City.

   In terms of wins and losses, the Turkey Valley and Starmont records were pretty similar before the baseball teams met in a doubleheader at Starmont Monday.    And they’re still that way.

   New Hampton needed all the talent it could muster while playing Waukon in the first game of a doubleheader at Mikkelson Park Tuesday.

  Ryan Gorman, Keegan Tenge and the rest of their New Hampton baseball team watched Waverly-Shell Rock erupt from its dugout and celebrate Tuesday night as if the Go-Hawks had won the World Series.  And they didn’t like it one bit.  “It was kind o