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Duncan Slick climbed the ladder to the top of his loft barn, saw the John Deere blanket, the John Deere stuffed toy tractor and the tractor pillowcase.
The little 4-year-old stopped for a second and took it all in.
“Oh my God,” he said with about the biggest smile a 4-year-old can flash, and the...
New Hampton’s City Council decided last week that it would eschew hiring a new street superintendent and, instead, will create a public works director position.
The idea, Councilman Bruce Diiro said, was that having someone oversee the street, wastewater and water departments would help with...
We’re not sure, quite honestly, if Beth Henningsen is going to like this story.
She’d rather this tale be about the volunteers, the donors and the recipients of an organization she started … basically anyone but herself.
But to understand Heavenly Days Dream Rooms, to recognize why it’s so...
It’s nothing fancy, but that sign, well, it’s a staple of Alta Vista.
For 42 years, Dean Folkers “changed out” that sign that sits on the “four corners” of the little town in northern Chickasaw County. Sometimes the sign touted upcoming events in the “Friendly Town,” other times it celebrated an...
Here’s one advantage to voting early: You’d have a great excuse not to watch any more of the presidential debates.
OK, that was probably a low blow to the debates, but for those of us who watched or saw the “lowlights” of last week’s first debate, we do have a point.
In all seriousness, the first...
It’s really early — like the top of the first inning of a baseball game or the first couple of minutes of a football game — but area farmers say that they’re hopeful they will get better-than-expected yields, despite a growing season that was adversely affected by drought.
The harvest season got...
Those dollar bills and that change that residents dropped into the red kettle during the 2019 holiday season is helping local school districts in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army, which is based out of Conway-Markham Funeral Home, recently...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds stepped outside the New Hampton Municipal Utility building on Friday afternoon and the smile almost said it all.
“That’s impressive,” she said. “That’s what we need more of in Iowa.”
And she was talking about more than just the utility, too.
The Republican governor visited...
Jake Hackman concedes he’s a little worried, and why shouldn’t he be?
After all, millions of dollars in federal funding are at stake when it comes to the U.S. Census, and an important deadline is fast approaching for the decennial event that is much more than just a count of the number of people in...
Scott Stillwell and Becky Donaldson have been making the trek to New Hampton the weekend after Labor Day for 35 years.
They weren’t going to let a little rain — OK, a lot of rain — stop them from attending the New Hampton Motorcycle Rally this past week.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of...
