As a 4-H youth specialist for Iowa State University for more than 17 years, Kendra Crooks covers six counties while working to help make the 4-H program all it can be.

Bill Siglin (at left) is honored in the Ionia Fun Days Parade on Saturday as grand marshal.

Saturday was good fun, but whether it was “clean” was debatable.That evening a crowd of about a hundred watched the “Newlywed Game,” the newest event at Ionia Fun Days.

Renewing your relationship on a daily basis is an important part of a long healthy marriage.

Kenneth Shatek runs because, for awhile, he couldn’t run.Not only did he, a graduate of the New Hampton Class of 1975, finish first in his age group of males 60-plus at the Glow Run for Ionia Fun Days Friday but, although he was the only one in hi

What was fun or interesting about summer? What have you read? Are you looking forward to returning to school?

Absentee ballots for the Sept. 11 Northeast Iowa Community College Special Election are available at the Chickasaw County Auditor’s Office in the courthouse.

Rick Kramer and Brian Quirk stood at Garnant Park one day recently and had vastly different answers to the same question.When the work on giving the park on New Hampton’s southeast side a new look began three years ago this month, did they ever im

New Hampton has a new police chief, or at least it will on Aug.

The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors on Monday heard an updated proposal from the engineering consultant firm that presented the Chickasaw County Radio Communications Project study in May.This project is in response to, not only the unintende

Music, pie, what wasn’t there to love?Farmers and elected officials celebrated a support network for the agricultural community at the Chickasaw County Farm Bureau Centennial on Monday.

A civil claim of a Chickasaw County man against Chickasaw County Public Health was dismissed on Nov. 27, in favor of Public Health.Plaintiff Robert Shipton filed notice of intent to appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court on Dec.

Grant Anderson is understandably proud of his bank’s Cookin’ for a Cause events.Since State Bank started the promotion in 2012, it has raised more than $43,000 for various causes around the area.Six years ago, the New Hampton bank held its first e

A temporary agreement for the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Office to share law enforcement services with the Nashua Police Department from Aug. 7 through Oct. 31 was approved by the County Board of Supervisors on Monday.

Vaccines have done such a good job controlling diseases in the United States and other developed countries that parents sometimes forget what life would be like without them, says Chickasaw County Public Health Director Kathy Babcock.Current and p