The long-rumored closing of New Hampton’s Shopko store became a reality this past spring, but the city and surrounding area came out a winner when Theisen’s agreed to purchase the building and move their store across the street.
Simon Lindquist came into his foreign exchange year in America with high expectations. He has yet to be disappointed.
He describes his experience as “absolutely fantastic” so far, and he is loving every minute.
New Hampton’s mayor and fire chief will not be the same at the beginning of 2020, as city voters and fire department members decided 2019 needed to be a year of change.
It’s never a great sign when one sees farmers giving up their Thanksgiving holiday weekend because they still have crops in the field or post-harvest field work to complete.
Twenty-eight years.
That’s how long it had been since the New Hampton volleyball team won a Northeast Iowa Conference championship, as the last time they claimed the title was in 1991.
When the Chickasaw County unit of the Salvation Army began its Red Kettle Campaign last month, Kris Markham publicly hoped it could reach it’s goal.
Privately, though, Markham was just hoping that the campaign would reach five digits.
One of the most tragic and horrific crimes in the history of Chickasaw County was settled in 2019, when Cheyanne Renee Harris was found guilty by a Plymouth County jury in February of the first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in dea
