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FFA leader thankful for roots

 Elisa Russ has been to every corner of Iowa. She’s traveled to conventions in Indiana and Michigan. She’s visited Washington, D.C.And she jetted off to South Africa, too ...

Flu just won’t go away

 It’s the flu season that just doesn’t want to end.School and hospital officials are both asking area residents to remain vigilant when it comes to influenza as New Hampton suffers through one of its worst outbreaks in years.“We have 37 kids gone

City leaders, committee begin preparing for RAGBRAI

 New Hampton has taken “baby steps” when it comes to preparing for RAGBRAI, but Mayor Deb Larsen told the City Council Monday night that planning will really pick up steam early next month.Larsen told the council that a RAGBRAI Committee has been

School gets set for bond sale

 New Hampton Community Schools will begin raising the money for its new building project on May 1, the day the district plans to sell $10 million in bonds.The School Board made the decision Monday night to sell only a portion of the bonds needed t

Author discusses latest book

 Author Linda McCann was at the Nashua Public Library on Saturday discussing her newly released book “Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Northeast Iowa.” McCann has been working on this book for months, talking with a dozen men who were in the C

Funeral home gears up for a busy summer

 When something weighs 24,000 pounds, you place it right where you want it.Just ask the folks at Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home, who had a 24,000-pound crematory placed Tuesday into what will become the area’s only crematorium.“It’s not like you ca

Students get a lesson on roller skates

 There was a lot of “falling down” during gym class on Monday afternoon, when the Nashua-Plainfield students began their roller skating unit for gym class.Physical Education Teacher Jill Kalvig will have her students roller skating at the Husky We

Times are a changing

 Ken Rasing vividly recalls the “old days” of emergency management.A call would go out for EMS personnel, and instead of receiving an address, “they’d tell us to go to the blue silo and turn left.”Emergency management has drastically changed durin

Familiar face will help Nashua with its budget

 State officials will be coming to Nashua next month to conduct an audit of city finances, and the Nashua City Council will bring back a familiar face to help the city prepare for the audit  and help prepare the budget and annual financial report.

Rotary to hold art auction

 The New Hampton Rotary is switching things up this year with their annual fundrasier and is inviting the community to an Art Auction they will hold on Friday, April 7.New Hampton Rotary has been serving the NH community since 1938 when it was cha

TRIBE Trail to get its own party

 Supporters of the proposed TRIBE Trail have two goals in mind when it comes to the Fools for Fitness event that is scheduled for April 1 at the Pub at the Pinicon.“Obviously, we want to raise money for a great project,” TRIBE Trail Committee memb

Body of Fredericksburg woman found

 The search for a missing Fredericksburg woman ended Monday morning when volunteers discovered the body of Sheila Ludwig near her home.Chickasaw County Sheriff Marty Hemann said it was a tough ending after scores of rescue personnel and volunteers

Chickasaw County jail building has been busy

Chickasaw County Sheriff Marty Hemann said the weather didn’t effect Chickasaw County as bad as it could have.“We saw a couple people in the ditches but overall were very lucky,” said Hemann.Last week deputies covered an accident in Lawler between

New Hampton student ‘way excited’ to get All-State nomination

Maybe it was good that Will Throndson was “kind of sick” on Monday.It kept the New Hampton High School sophomore from fretting too much about the Iowa State Speech Association’s All-State Festival nominations that were due out later in the day.“I 

Supervisors will back pool

As the New Hampton Municipal Pool project moves forward, the committee is looking to finalize grants for the projectNew Hampton Parks and Recreation Assistant Director Tara Hackman met with the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors Monday morning

Final rush

Carolin Remmen grabbed a costume off the rack Tuesday afternoon, handed it to a student and laughed.But this wasn’t a feel-good chuckle, it was one of those “oh-my-gosh-are-you-serious” snicker.“The last thing — and I mean the very last thing — we

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