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The man in charge of Iowa’s election system takes voting integrity very seriously, but he believes the flap over Russian intervention in the 2016 election has been blown “way out of proportion.”
Secretary of State Paul Pate recently visited Northeast Iowa to meet with county auditors and said in...
The Rev. Peter Faugstad stood in the front of his little church, and the smile refused to leave his face.
“Oh my, it was wonderful — absolutely wonderful,” he said after Jerico Lutheran Church held its 150th anniversary service Sunday morning. “The view we pastors had ... it’s something I will...
The Davis Rally will not be returning to New Hampton ... at least for this year.
Rally organizers, who had already switched the date and the location for this year’s rally, made the announcement on its Facebook page Wednesday morning.
“We know this will be disappointing news for many, and we feel...
Sump pump and the damage they are doing to the streets of New Hampton was discussed Monday night at the City Council meeting.
New Hampton Street Superintendent Junior Mai would like it to become an ordinance that sump pumps are no longer allowed to be dumped in the streets anymore.
“If there is...
When Chickasaw County hires a new Veterans Affairs director, the office he or she has will move to the east side of New Hampton.
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors decided Monday to move the office from the Chickasaw County Community Services Building to a building located at 910 E. Main...
Flo Throndson had a saying her children heard a million times.
“The Lord will provide.”
There’s a lot of veracity to that statement, at least if the charity that carries her name is any indication.
Just ask her son Tim, one of 13 Throndsons who he jokes had to live with “middle-child syndrome.”
A...
Sports
After losing a 4-1 contest at Kee High Friday, Turkey Valley's boys snapped an 11-game winning streak by the Kee Hawks when they bounced back in game two, soundly whipping their guests 10-0 and handing them their first conference loss of the season. Kee High was defeated twice by Decorah to...
Maybe a picture is worth a 1,000 words; after all, the snapshot that could have been taken after New Hampton beat Crestwood 5-3 Friday night spoke volumes.Yes, the Chickasaws won their 13th straight game. Yes, New Hampton improved to 22-1. And yes, the Chickasaws remained perfect — 12-0 — in the...
With the regular season winding down, time is getting short for Turkey Valley’s girls to land their first win of the season. They were unable to do so against MFL Monday, as they lost 11-1 and 10-5 games on the road. Even more critical for the team is to put a complete game together by...
One was a win, one was a loss, but in both cases Turkey Valley’s baseball team rallied in the sixth inning when they played a doubleheader at Edgewood-Colesburg Monday. The Trojan record went to 7-11 the next night as Oelwein played at Jackson Junction and won a slim 4-1 contest. In conference...
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