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Student from Sweden keeps busy in NH

Simon Lindquist came into his foreign exchange year in America with high expectations. He has yet to be disappointed. 
He describes his experience as “absolutely fantastic” so far, and he is loving every minute.

It’s a changing of the guard of sorts in New Hampton

New Hampton’s mayor and fire chief will not be the same at the beginning of 2020, as city voters and fire department members decided 2019 needed to be a year of change.

Despite myriad of challenges, farmers somehow get ‘win’

It’s never a great sign when one sees farmers giving up their Thanksgiving holiday weekend because they still have crops in the field or post-harvest field work to complete.

New Hampton breaks NEIC volleyball drought

Twenty-eight years.
That’s how long it had been since the New Hampton volleyball team won a Northeast Iowa Conference championship, as the last time they claimed the title was in 1991. 

Salvation Army declares victory

When the Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army began its Red Kettle Campaign last month, Kris Markham publicly hoped it could reach it’s goal.
Privately, though, Markham was just hoping that the campaign would reach five digits.

It’s a year of change at MercyOne New Hampton

There was much to celebrate in New Hampton’s medical community this year.

Sad chapter comes to an end with conviction

One of the most tragic and horrific crimes in the history of Chickasaw County was settled in 2019, when Cheyanne Renee Harris was found guilty by a Plymouth County jury in February of the first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in dea

TV boys win back-to-back conference titles

It didn’t come easy, especially after early season losses in Upper Iowa Conference play to North Fayette Valley and South Winneshiek, but the Turkey Valley boys basketball team bounced back and concluded the conference schedule by winning nine con

Blazek finishes third at state XC meet

Although she is only a sophomore, Jalyssa Blazek is well on her way to putting together one heck of a cross country career at Turkey Valley.

Iowa learns what we always knew: Pub’s tenderloin is the best

This is one of those stories that most of us in and around Chickasaw County already knew: The Pub at the Pinicon’s breaded tenderloin is the best one in all of Iowa.

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