Maggie Peterson couldn’t help but laugh when she was asked about what her job looked like 100 years ago when Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton opened. “That’s easy,” she said, “because it didn’t exist.
Julie Winter-Havel sat in her office at the Blue Iris and went through her list. Vendors? Check. Information booths? Check. Volunteers? Check. T-shirts?
It wasn’t that the Chickasaw Hoops Club didn’t find its annual golf outing to be a fun, enjoyable or even a profitable fundraiser. But something was missing. “We honestly didn’t get a lot of former basketball players back,” said Hoops Cl
As Chickasaw County residents cleaned up after a thunderstorm with winds up to 70 miles per hour moved through the area last week, Mother Nature delivered another punch Friday and Saturday. Residents in the southeastern part of New Hampton
While at the plate, New Hampton’s Lauren Frerichs had the fifth-best batting average in Northeast Iowa Conference softball games this season, which helped her earn first team honors at the end of the Chickasaw campaign. Frerichs was the only fi
It wasn’t supposed to end in Cedar Falls; instead, the script called for this brilliant season to finish on a Saturday afternoon in Principal Park. This isn’t Hollywood, however; it’s baseball. And on Tuesday night, the best baseball sea
After Turkey Valley's Evan Drilling laced a home run down the left field line to start a district semifinal game against Kee High Thursday, Jaden Bruess was trying to be helpful. Except he was wearing a mischievous grin. "Evan too
Top-ranked New Hampton ran out to a 6-0 lead, survived a mini-South Winneshiek comeback and rolled to a 9-2 victory over the Warriors Saturday in a Class 2A district title game.
Carter Stochl — or for that matter, any of his New Hampton baseball teammates — doesn’t need a dictionary to define the word sacrifice. Instead, they personify the meaning of sacrifice — “the surrender or destruction of something prized or de
The baseball field at New Albin holds a certain mystique for Turkey Valley coach Dan Stepan, with good reason. Under legendary coach Gene Schultz, the Kee High program — which plays its games at New Albin — won four consecutive state basebal
Gladbrook-Reinbeck threw a 1-2 punch at Turkey Valley's baseball team as they combined a very good pitching display with a solid batting effort when they hosted the Trojans last Thursday. But it was the TV boys that delivered their own
Cory McDonald sat on top of the riding mower and took a break from dragging the infield Saturday morning. He was asked about the celebration — or more to the point, the lack of one — after his New Hampton baseball team set a school record wit
The score didn’t look close, but Jack Seelhammer felt his team was right there with Center Point-Urbana Friday night. In the end, the eighth-ranked Pointers came away with a 10-5 victory over New Hampton in the Class 3A semifinal game, but Se
By the time Savannah Anderson took the mound to pitch in New Hampton’s first round regional game against Waukon Wednesday, the Chickasaws had an 8-0 lead. “Yes, that was very comforting,” said the junior.
