Maybe Friday didn’t provide the crowds Lawler’s Irish Fest organizers were hoping for, but by Saturday, it was almost as if the folks who call — or have called — Lawler home said “screw it, the heat’s not going to beat us.”
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Maybe Friday didn’t provide the crowds Lawler’s Irish Fest organizers were hoping for, but by Saturday, it was almost as if the folks who call — or have called — Lawler home said “screw it, the heat’s not going to beat us.”The Irish — both the real kind and the Irish-for-a-weekend — turned out in...
Twenty-five U.S. military veterans, many from the Chickasaw County area, received quilts of comfort Thursday which were crafted by area volunteers with Quilts of Valor to honor the vets for their service.Tom Myrsiades, of Alta Vista, served the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1970. He served a year in...
The Board of Supervisors [last week] heard and acknowledged that Sheriff Marty Hemann offered the jail administrator position to Jordan Gansen effective June 4.Gansen, previously a deputy, has been with the department for three years and holds degrees in corrections and criminology, as well as Iowa...
Pancakes, sausage and freshly brewed coffee were part of the fun walking into the First Baptist Church in Plainfield on Saturday morning while supporting a local Boy Scout Eagle project.Nashua-Plainfield Boy Scout Tyler Anderson held a fundraiser for his Boy Scout Eagle project. The breakfast was...
The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider arguments for and against adoption of a proposed fireworks ordinance pertaining to unincorporated areas.The hearing will be Monday, June 18, at 11:30 a.m. The motion approving the resolution legal notice announcing the...
Saturday morning, June 2, Mother Nature was not cooperating with the Szalkowski family but teams braved the weather to help share the memory of Paul Szalkowski and to raise money for the annual Paul Szalkowski Scholarship Fund.The Szalkowski family, along with many who remembered the former Nashua...
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The New Hampton girls golf team, fresh off a second straight runner-up finish at the state golf tournament, is reaping a host of postseason awards.
After setting some new school records this year, Allison Nuss was named by the Des Moines Register to the All-Iowa Girls Golf team in Class 2A. She is...
New Hampton’s girls picked up relatively easy Northeast Iowa Conference wins last Wednesday and Thursday, but this Wednesday and Thursday will be a different story.
Back-to-back wins over Decorah and Oelwein gave the Chickasaws the sweep over those schools. But this week will be especially busy and...
The seniors on the New Hampton baseball team have literally played hundreds of games since they first became teammates on a travel team back when they were elementary school students.
But they have never had more fun playing the game than they did on Friday night, when they moved into the Northeast...
New Hampton used three different pitchers to hold their collective opponents to a total of six runs in 21 innings of play during the Chickasaw Softball Invitational Saturday, and while a good defense went a long way toward winning their home tourney, the offense wasn’t too shabby either.
The...
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