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Summer is in full color at libraries around Chickasaw County as summer reading programs kick off, some this month, some next month, for children and families.
The New Hampton, Fredericksburg, Ionia, Alta Vista, Nashua and Lawler libraries are bursting onto the scene in an array of color after a...
While many town celebrations have grand marshals, Frederika does things a little differently. It has a king and a queen to represent its town and lead the annual parade.
And just what does the royalty — this year it’s Shirley Mack and Sylvan Mutschler — have to do to be selected?
Live a long...
New Hampton could see the construction of a dozen new homes soon and the city’s lone day-care center may also benefit from the new housing development after the City Council approved the preliminary plat for the “Croell’s Fourth Addition” during last week’s meeting.
The addition will extend...
It did not rain on Nashua’s Water Over the Dam Days Parade Saturday morning, or at least, for the most part, it didn’t.
Not that it would have mattered to a lot of the parade watchers, especially those who make their living from the land.
Those people were positively giddy, and why not? For once,...
It’s definitely one of the most unique exhibits in the history of the Carnegie Cultural Center, and one could say “Cheers to Craft Beer” is going to go “interactive” this Sunday, June 13.
From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. that day, the New Hampton museum will host a reception for the exhibit that includes a...
Rod Friedrich is kind of partial to northeast Iowa — Alta Vista in particular — and a few weeks ago he found out Alta Vista is pretty fond of him too.
That’s when he found out the AV Day board had chosen him and his wife Toni as Grand Marshals of this year’s parade, which will be held during the...
Kirk Lynch has been around cattle his entire life; his wife, Mary, is a relative “newbie.”
But they still make a heck of a team on their cattle farm northwest of New Hampton.
“I’ve learned a lot, but I still only know a fraction of what he does,” Mary said, “and the funny thing is I always told...
The Chickasaw Ambulance Council last week voted to keep two ambulances that serve the county at the New Hampton Police Department garage as long as the city of New Hampton will provide liability insurance to the rigs.
After rescinding a resolution passed in March that would pay Jeremy McGrath $15,...
A former Chickasaw County Board of Health member has filed a lawsuit against Chickasaw County and one of its supervisors claiming that he was libeled and slandered during the county’s attempt to remove him from the board.
In a lawsuit filed last month by Osage attorney Aaron Murphy, Terry Johnson...
Dawn Heying stood in the top row of the Mikkelson Park baseball grandstand Friday evening and looked down at the crowd gathered for the start of the Their Fight Is Our Fight 5K run/walk.
And on what would have been her daughter’s 24th birthday, she found peace.
“I may have been physically tired,”...
