While teaching about the My Plate dietary guidelines, Linda Burgart once had students taste food samples before revealing what each was.At the end of the session, Burgart, who teaches the Ag in the Classroom program for Chickasaw County Farm Burea
The first time is always the scariest.Before your mind jumps into the gutter, this story is about giving blood.Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood, according to the American Red Cross website, which goes on to say blood is
As far as New Hampton speech coach Jason Speltz is concerned, any team that finished with 12 Division I ratings at the state individual contest has something going for it.The fact that New Hampton did that in a year like this, when the weather wre
The brick is in, the walls are up and when walking around what will be New Hampton’s soon-to-be middle school, one can definitely see a school building taking shape.“I know I say this almost every time we’ve done an update,” Superintendent Jay Jur
The weather earlier this week was quite simply the last thing New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens wanted to see.And he wasn’t alone in that thought.
New Hampton boys track coach Scott Frerichs said his Chickasaws got exactly what they needed Tuesday night when they opened the season at the Wartburg Select Indoor.
The past couple of weeks, the Nashua-Plainfield Elementary students in Jill Kalvig’s physical education class have had more gym time, smiles and laughing than other units.The students have been asking since the beginning of the school year and it
Weather and missed practice time could not discourage the talented Nashua-Plainfield Junior High Band, which overcame recent weather that impeded practice time to earn a “Superior” rating at the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association Large Group C
The Chickasaw County Ambulance Council has a little more than 3 1/2 months to find a provider, yet at a meeting Tuesday night, council members made little headway on finalizing a request for proposals (RFP) that they hope to send out by April 1.An
Chickasaw County will continue to buy down an increase in employee health insurance premiums using reserve funds and some new funds, as discussed on Monday.Renewal rates from Wellmark came in at what would have been almost an 8 percent increase ov
