It had been 40 years since RAGBRAI last made their way through Ionia and New Hampton and it never had been through Lawler.
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It had been 40 years since RAGBRAI last made their way through Ionia and New Hampton and it never had been through Lawler.If the Register Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa participants have any say in it, the three Chickasaw County towns won’t have to wait until 2057 to see the bicycle ride again...
New Hampton Community Schools’ bus fleet will soon get two new, unique additions. The School Board last week approved purchasing two propane-powered buses, a month after asking Superintendent Jay Jurrens to look into the pros and cons of purchasing gas or diesel powered buses. But the...
ennis Collins couldn’t help but laugh when asked about his extended career as a maintenance mechanic and plant operations employee at Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton.
“Well, I was born here,” he said, “and I always tell the story that when I was born, they slapped me, I liked it and never left...
It’s taken a while but the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is that a new Chickasaw County veterans affairs director will be in place this coming Monday.
Veterans Commission Chairman David Boss met with the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors on Monday to discuss pay for the new...
A powerful thunderstorm packing winds of 70 miles per hour blasted Chickasaw County late Wednesday afternoon and left hundreds of residents without power.
The storm led to numerous downed trees and power lines throughout the county, a number of farm buildings destroyed by the storm.
The National...
The hunt for trash continued this past week as volunteers embarked on the last leg of Project AWARE’s 2017 route along the upper Cedar River.
It’s the first time AWARE has visited Mitchell and Floyd counties, Project AWARE coordinator Lynette Seigley said.
“There was interest locally in having us...
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Rick Kramer today is New Hampton Parks and Recreation director, but back in 1977, he had just graduated from high school, and he remembers the bicyclists camping at Mikkelson Park in New Hampton. “It was a big deal, but nothing — I mean nothing — like it is today,” he said. “Back then, RAGBRAI...
Dan Scott admitted that he almost had tears in his eyes as his good friend and fellow New Hampton Airport Foundation member Jason Lahmann flew him over the airport runway recently. As he looked below, the retired New Hampton businessman got his first really good look at the “new” runway at...
Maggie Peterson couldn’t help but laugh when she was asked about what her job looked like 100 years ago when Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton opened. “That’s easy,” she said, “because it didn’t exist. Really, even 20 years ago, you didn’t see a lot of athletic trainers.” And in a sense, as...
It wasn’t that the Chickasaw Hoops Club didn’t find its annual golf outing to be a fun, enjoyable or even a profitable fundraiser. But something was missing. “We honestly didn’t get a lot of former basketball players back,” said Hoops Club member Bruce Zwanziger. “We’d get a good turnout...
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