Jill Flugum’s day begins at 7:45 a.m. when she readies her classroom and herself for her day as a kindergarten teacher at St. Joseph Community School. 

Lisa Rude isn’t going to lie — she missed coaching softball.
So when New Hampton softball coach Jack Seelhammer announced after last season that he was retiring after 13 seasons at the helm, Rude was more than a little interested.

The “Home of the Chickasaws” is up for a prestigious award that will be handed out later this month during the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association’s annual convention.

If the Turkey Valley girls basketball team would have stayed on their scoring pace through one quarter of play, they would have totaled 152 points.

Tom Steyer believes one way Democrats can beat Donald Trump in 2020 is to run an outside-of-the-box candidate, and guess what?
That describes the California billionaire to a proverbial T.

 the New Hampton/Turkey Valley schedule — 19 days between the Battle of the Waterloo and a dual meet with Waverly-Shell Rock — he wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

It was — as Maddie Hoeck put it so well — “nine hours of agony.”