Maybe — no, scratch maybe and say absolutely — what New Hampton baseball coach Cory McDonald will miss the most about his seniors is their team-first attitude.
All of the Turkey Valley girls deserved to be named to the Upper Iowa Conference honor squads just for sticking with the program this year, but that’s not the way these things work. So at the conclusion of a disappointing season, Sadie Nymeyer
Even though Cody Hackman played catcher about as much as he was in centerfield, the Turkey Valley senior was named an Upper Iowa Conference first team outfielder for the 2017 season. He was the only Trojan to land on the first team, but Evan
Rick Kramer today is New Hampton Parks and Recreation director, but back in 1977, he had just graduated from high school, and he remembers the bicyclists camping at Mikkelson Park in New Hampton. “It was a big deal, but nothing — I mean nothi
Dan Scott admitted that he almost had tears in his eyes as his good friend and fellow New Hampton Airport Foundation member Jason Lahmann flew him over the airport runway recently. As he looked below, the retired New Hampton businessman got
Maggie Peterson couldn’t help but laugh when she was asked about what her job looked like 100 years ago when Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton opened. “That’s easy,” she said, “because it didn’t exist.
Julie Winter-Havel sat in her office at the Blue Iris and went through her list. Vendors? Check. Information booths? Check. Volunteers? Check. T-shirts?
It wasn’t that the Chickasaw Hoops Club didn’t find its annual golf outing to be a fun, enjoyable or even a profitable fundraiser. But something was missing. “We honestly didn’t get a lot of former basketball players back,” said Hoops Cl
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
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 fi
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 sea
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 too
Top-ranked New Hampton ran out to a 6-0 lead, survived a mini-South Winneshiek comeback and rolled to a 9-2 victory over the Warriors Saturday in a Class 2A district title game.
Carter Stochl — or for that matter, any of his New Hampton baseball teammates — doesn’t need a dictionary to define the word sacrifice. Instead, they personify the meaning of sacrifice — “the surrender or destruction of something prized or de
