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Geri Ellen Thomas, 47

Geri Ellen Thomas, 47, of New Hampton and formerly of Sumner, died Saturday, September 8, 2018, at Mercy Medical Center in Mason City.

N-P endures tough week on court, remains winless

Nashua-Plainfield’s volleyball team knew the challenge presented by its first Saturday tournament was going to be, in a word, brutal.

Huskies fall in district opener

Maybe first-year head football coaches are jinxed at Nashua-Plainfield; after all, in 2015, Chase Sudol went through an injury-plagued debut season, and the same thing is happening to Nick Lamphier this year.

This is a good distraction

Nashua-Plainfield High School Principal Scott Striegel has been around education long enough to know that homecoming doesn’t make for a typical week in the classroom.“We’re doing a lot of things — like today we had activity day and did a lot of co

Finally, Mother Nature dries us out

Let’s face it, we like to give weather forecasters a hard time; after all, we tend to focus on their “missed forecasts” a lot more than the ones they get right.So before we get too far into this story, hats off to Dave Lawrence, a National Weather

Carnegie to hold artist reception Saturday

A retrospective exhibit of the nearly four-decade graphic art career of a Lawler area native is on display now at the Carnegie Cultural Center. Lawler native Richard Blazek, whom the University of Iowa has employed for over 38 years as a graphic a

Nashua man claims he did not poison dog

A man who recently pleaded guilty to one count of animal neglect in Nashua wants to make it clear that a dog in the case was not poisoned.Anthony Hoffman, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of animal neglect last month in a case where the body of a d

Area runners run through the mud

New Hampton seniors Alexis and Adrian Rings didn’t mind that the cross country meet, for a short distance, turned into a mud run Saturday at Luther College.

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