After she agrees to marry the man of her dreams, then comes the photographers, caterers, dresses, flowers and many more details the bride-to-be has been planning since she was a little girl.

Save for the yellow trim on the outside, it doesn’t look much like a Dollar General store.

Take out the Charles City meet, and you know what? It wasn’t all that bad of a week for the New Hampton/Turkey Valley wrestling team.

Weddings are events that change with the times.

New Hampton had itself a day — and then some — at Saturday’s large-group district speech meet in Decorah.

The chances of winning an outright conference title just got a little slimmer Friday for both the Turkey Valley girls and boys as each team dropped games to MFL at the Trojan gym; the boys lost 59-55 and the girls were defeated 52-36.

Go back in time to 2010 when Heather Maurer was first preparing for the Wedding Extravaganza.

The way the calendar falls and a state law that doesn’t allow school years to start before Aug. 23 has led to some creative ideas for the 2020-21 school calendar in New Hampton.