New Hampton’s mayor and fire chief will not be the same at the beginning of 2020, as city voters and fire department members decided 2019 needed to be a year of change.

It’s never a great sign when one sees farmers giving up their Thanksgiving holiday weekend because they still have crops in the field or post-harvest field work to complete.

When the Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army began its Red Kettle Campaign last month, Kris Markham publicly hoped it could reach it’s goal.
Privately, though, Markham was just hoping that the campaign would reach five digits.

There was much to celebrate in New Hampton’s medical community this year.

One of the most tragic and horrific crimes in the history of Chickasaw County was settled in 2019, when Cheyanne Renee Harris was found guilty by a Plymouth County jury in February of the first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in dea

This is one of those stories that most of us in and around Chickasaw County already knew: The Pub at the Pinicon’s breaded tenderloin is the best one in all of Iowa.

Those who drove by New Hampton’s McDonald’s restaurant on the city’s west side had no doubt something big was going on.
It certainly was as the restaurant owned by the Soifer Family underwent one heck of a makeover.

The Northeast Iowa Conference hasn’t changed a bit in more than 50 years, but that may soon change for two reasons.

By the middle of next month, New Hampton Community Schools will have a whole new online look, one geared to how its patrons access the internet and social media.

The New Hampton City Council has said “thanks, but no thanks” to a broadband company that wanted to install antennas on the city’s water towers in exchange for free wireless internet service for all city departments.

It wasn’t that hard to sense a little ire in the air as MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center CEO and President Aaron Flugum took “the stage” last Monday to lead a discussion about the hospital decision to pause labor and delivery services next summ

Joel Rochford went out for lunch Thursday and came back with a $11,000 idea, and the family of an Iowa State Patrol trooper will be forever grateful.

Maybe Lisa Pool said it best when she was asked about the activities that took place at the Little Light of Mine this past Friday night.

It was a frigid evening last Saturday for the first annual Jingle Jog n’ Roll 5K. 

The Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army is more than halfway to its Red Kettle Campaign goal, but time, which was always short this season, is running out.