The Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army is more than halfway to its Red Kettle Campaign goal, but time, which was always short this season, is running out.
While both the girls and boys played a bit short-handed Tuesday against Central Elkader, the scoreboards didn’t show it. Both Trojan teams stayed unbeaten as the girls won 56-37, and the boys crushed the Warriors, 70-17.
Suellen Kolbet retired as New Hampton’s city clerk in May 2018, but when it comes to retiring from Breakfast with Santa … well, that’s going to be a while.
The good news is that the value of Iowa farmland inched up a bit — breaking a six-year trend — in 2019, but the bad news is that the 2.3 percent statewide increase didn’t hit Northeast Iowa.
It might not take much to constitute a “White Christmas,” but it’s still looking highly doubtful that we’re going to see snow on the ground when Dec. 25 rolls around.
