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New Hampton girls top Waukon

Coach Eric Olson was a fountain of cliches Sunday, a day before the girls were scheduled to start their final regular season week of the golf campaign.  The conversation centered around the regional pairings that were released last week that sent

Chickasaws survive awful elements, post NEIC triangular win

Yes, New Hampton’s boys like to golf. They’re happy when the find out a meet is 18 holes instead of nine.  But Friday?  “No, they didn’t want to be out in the rain and the cold,” said coach Bill Glenn.

Lawler prepares for RAGBRAI

Lawler began planning its RAGBRAI  gathering with an informational planning meeting last week.Piggy backing off of the Lawler Irish Fest committee theme this year, Lawler’s RAGBRAI theme will be, “Get Lucky In Lawler.”Being the next stop after New

Coffeehouse once again brings out the emotions

Raelei Hemann had steeled herself not to cry Sunday afternoon.She failed.“Seriously, I really didn’t think I would cry,” the New Hampton High School senior said after the Coffeehouse Concert, “but when we were out there for ‘In This Very Room,’ it

Firing on all cylinders

While the distractions that come along with prom may have contributed to the first trapshooting squad loss for New Hampton this season at Osage Saturday, coach Chuck Stanton wouldn’t change a thing.  “We had 26 people leave early, so we did some t

On further review, track meet off

The on-again, off-again New Hampton Invitational boys track meet is now permanently off.The meet was originally scheduled to be held on Monday night but because of the forecast, school officials postponed the meet to Tuesday.But several teams drop

Walking school bus is good for both the kids and volunteers

Wednesday students of all ages will be walking to school for New Hampton’s Walk to School Day.However, some students have been walking to school for weeks now.I am a volunteer for the walking school bus in New Hampton which is up to three routes a

Stressed editor tackles questions like spring, where are ye?

I’ve got to fly with this column because despite feeling like I spent an eternity in the office this weekend, I’m a mere 125 minutes from deadline as I begin writing this column.If this was all I had left, I’d be fine, but I’m going to have to spr

Save for Mother Nature, it was a great month

If this editorial was a letter to Mother Nature, it might read something like this:Dear Mother Nature;You do know it’s supposed to be spring, right?

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