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New Hampton Public Works Director Casey Mai pulled out his phone Friday morning and started scrolling through his photos — stopping at two in particular.
One showed the cause of a water main leak earlier this year on West Main Street; the other showed the damage caused to the portion of the street...
The New Hampton City Council once again tabled paying its share of “seed money” to the Chickasaw County Ambulance Council.
The unanimous vote came after a lengthy and, at times, contentious discussion during a meeting last Monday evening that was marked by several heated exchanges and city...
Chickasaw County Public Health and Homecare Services will in all likelihood pass the 4,000 vaccine mark this week, thanks to the fact that the state is providing the county with an additional 300 COVID-19 vaccines.
As of Friday, Public Health Administrator Lisa Welter said her nurses have...
Don't get Sandy Boeding or Elizabeth Holthaus wrong, when they "wrap" a trailer — any vehicle, really — they do so with loving care.
But one of their latest projects completed by Sandy's Sign Shop touched them deeply.
"I've always considered myself pretty patriotic," said Boeding, who has owned...
Twenty-eight days elapsed between budget hearings held by the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors, but not much else changed Monday.
The levy rate stayed the same, the total expenditures stayed the same and unanimity couldn’t be found, but thanks to a 3-2 vote, the county now officially has...
When the pandemic closed churches a year ago, area pastors and priests didn’t just close the doors and nap for a month.
If anything, their jobs became that much tougher.
Though Pastor Kevin Frey, Father Brian Dellaert and Pastor Peter Faugstad all missed their congregations during that time, all...
Let’s get one thing out of the way, the reporter of this story did a thorough job on this story.
He asked the subject of the story a lot of questions. He asked the parents of said subject questions about having a 17-year-old daughter running her own business. And he, of course, checked out the...
The New Hampton Municipal Pool will definitely be open this coming summer, but Parks and Recreation officials say they are still woefully short of applicants.
That led the Park Board last Wednesday to increase wages for lifeguards, water-safety instructors (WSIs) and others who will be employed at...
The 49th annual New Hampton Lions Breakfast will be remembered for a good, long time by the club members.
And probably not in like the wow-that-was-a-heck-of-a-year way, but then again, as Jim Gorman put it, at least the Lions didn’t have to “skip a year” because of COVID-19.
A year ago, the Lions...
It’s the little moments that mean the most to New Hampton individual speech coach Jason Speltz.
Sure, the eight Division I ratings his team garnered at Saturday’s state speech contest were important, but the memory that may last the longest for Speltz is one that came after New Hampton students had...
