Matt Paulus and his New Hampton/Turkey Valley team knew the hurdle was huge, and although they didn’t quite overcome it, the Chickasaws acquitted themselves quite well in a 39-27 loss to Waverly-Shell Rock last Thursday.

Elizabeth “Liz” Bucknell, age 48 of Jupiter, Florida, and formerly of New Hampton, passed away Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020 at the Floyd County Medical Center in Charles City with her loving family by her side.

Nadine Irene Whiteman, age 89 of New Hampton, died Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, at New Hampton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

Jill Flugum’s day begins at 7:45 a.m. when she readies her classroom and herself for her day as a kindergarten teacher at St. Joseph Community School. 

Lisa Rude isn’t going to lie — she missed coaching softball.
So when New Hampton softball coach Jack Seelhammer announced after last season that he was retiring after 13 seasons at the helm, Rude was more than a little interested.

The “Home of the Chickasaws” is up for a prestigious award that will be handed out later this month during the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association’s annual convention.

If the Turkey Valley girls basketball team would have stayed on their scoring pace through one quarter of play, they would have totaled 152 points.

Tom Steyer believes one way Democrats can beat Donald Trump in 2020 is to run an outside-of-the-box candidate, and guess what?
That describes the California billionaire to a proverbial T.