Larry G. Jones, age 88, currently from Apple Valley, Minnesota passed away on November 14, 2018 in his home from a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
The calendar may say it’s 2018, but at least at the New Hampton Rotary Club meeting last week, it was 1985.“Well, I don’t know if I’d go that far,” said former University of Iowa quarterback Chuck Long, who spoke before a crowd of more than 60 Rot
New Hampton fourth grade students left class on Thursday knowing a watershed is an area of land that drains into a common water body and some things they could do to protect it.Two Iowa State University staffers, Todd Stevens, outreach specialist,
Readers in Chickasaw County evidently are not “followers,” at least if the Great American Read says anything.The winner of the nationwide PBS competition for the best book — among 100 selected as finalists — was “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the classi
The Salvation Army of Chickasaw County has been able to provide needed aid to the community over the last three years thanks to the generosity of locals during its “red kettle” fund drive, both through cash and the “in kind” voluntarism of bell-ri
The independent committee that organizes a spectacular holiday light display in New Hampton has been hard at work in concert with the community to outperform last year’s inaugural event.It’s the hope of committee member Lisa Pool that the communit
In conjunction with the Veterans Day week, New Hampton fourth grade students inspected the Chickasaw County Veterans Memorial, noticing things they might not have seen before.Teachers a couple of years ago walked through the memorial and develope
If Lydia Klinkel, who began Monday as the Ionia Community Library director, looks familiar it’s because she worked the previous 17 months part-time at the New Hampton Public Library.She has some big shoes to fill, as Jane McGrane retired last mont
