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.
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ennis Collins couldn’t help but laugh when asked about his extended career as a maintenance mechanic and plant operations employee at Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton.
“Well, I was born here,” he said, “and I always tell the story that when I was born, they slapped me, I liked it and never left...
It’s taken a while but the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is that a new Chickasaw County veterans affairs director will be in place this coming Monday.
Veterans Commission Chairman David Boss met with the Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors on Monday to discuss pay for the new...
A powerful thunderstorm packing winds of 70 miles per hour blasted Chickasaw County late Wednesday afternoon and left hundreds of residents without power.
The storm led to numerous downed trees and power lines throughout the county, a number of farm buildings destroyed by the storm.
The National...
The hunt for trash continued this past week as volunteers embarked on the last leg of Project AWARE’s 2017 route along the upper Cedar River.
It’s the first time AWARE has visited Mitchell and Floyd counties, Project AWARE coordinator Lynette Seigley said.
“There was interest locally in having us...
Ed Anderson, his son and two of his grandchildren walked behind the stands and checked out the tractors and trucks Friday night.
“I like that one ... and that one ... and that one,” said 6-year-old Toby, the grandson of the former Nashua-Plainfield Elementary School principal as his grandfather...
Bailey Schinker wanted to be Chickasaw County’s fair queen, but she may have been the most shocked person on the Big Four Fairgrounds Sunday night when her name was announced.
“I wouldn’t have been devastated, but yeah, I wanted to win and I tried hard,” she said moments after receiving her crown...
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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 and in Fredericksburg reported receiving more than...
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 first team pick for the NH girls, but Kallie Olson,...
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 season in New Hampton school history came to a crushing...
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 took the second pitch, and it travelled oh, 520-530 feet," he...
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