One of the things Jo Myrsaides liked about the sixth annual Al Baxter Memorial Turkey Shoot last year was bidding on the shooters in the auction.
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Nashua-Plainfield Superintendent Randy Strabala knows it seems strange that some voters will literally drive past the Gateway to Northeast Iowa Welcome Center on their way to vote in Plainfield.
“There’s really no way to make this work perfectly,” he said, “and we just had to make a choice.”
And...
Two Nashua postal carriers receive quite an honor from the United States Postal Service last week for their service.
Rural carriers Deb Holzer and Randy Sinnwell received the Million Mile Award on Friday morning from Postmaster Craig Goetsch.
Holzer has been a carrier for 33 years while...
Upstairs, a group of older children were working on the performing arts Wednesday afternoon.
In the Carnegie Cultural Cultural basement, meanwhile, younger kids were putting together some pretty cool visual arts pieces.
Welcome to the Art Safari, a summer tradition at the New Hampton museum in...
Madison Kolbet stood near the sweet corn field and wondered aloud.
“I really don’t know what the big deal is,” the New Hampton High School sophomore said. “I mean when people need help, you help them, right?”
So before she and Grant Anderson presented a check for $1,000 to New Hampton Parks and...
New Hampton School Board President Joe Rosonke admitted he was stealing a line often uttered by teacher and coach Cory McDonald.
But, on this day, the one in which the school district broke ground on its $19.415 million building project, it had to be said.
“It’s a great day to be a Chickasaw.”...
Nashua-Plainfield Elementary and Intermediate School students will get one extra day of summer vacation this year.
As junior high and high school students head back to school next Wednesday, students in grades K-6 can enjoy one last day of sleeping late because the elementary and intermediate...
Sports
One of the things Jo Myrsaides liked about the sixth annual Al Baxter Memorial Turkey Shoot last year was bidding on the shooters in the auction. Myrsaides’ late husband, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources conservation officer, would have approved of the shooter she picked to bid on, New...
Josh Fenske visited the Southern Illinois University last month and came away impressed. “I liked the campus. It’s beautiful. I liked the coaches and I felt like it was a good place for me,” he said. “The coaching staff was a key part. ... They have guys who know football and you can look up...
The New Hampton football team will head to Decorah tonight [Friday] to finally play someone other themselves. The Chickasaws and Vikings, for a second straight year, will scrimmage against each other, beginning at 7 p.m. “It’s a good thing for us,” New Hampton coach Scott Frerichs said. “...
Cole McDonald will be the first to admit that he’s been presented some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities because he’s a member of the University of Iowa baseball team. He got a chance to travel to the Dominican Republic last November. He was on a team that won its first-ever Big Ten...
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