For a brief moment Tuesday evening, Michael Tupper wasn’t as cool as the proverbial cucumber.“I was a little bit of a nervous wreck,” the 2014 New Hampton High School graduate said.
It wasn’t the enrollment news New Hampton Community Schools was looking for, but it did provide a lesson in how mobile society has become.Superintendent Jay Jurrens delivered the bad news — New Hampton’s certified enrollment had dropped by 1.8 per
Kids of all ages have been waiting and now it is back by popular demand.The Old Bradford Pioneer Museum’s Spooky Village will be opening again this year on Oct.
State medical examiners are testing found human remains thought to belong to Cloris Mehmen of Plainfield, Bremer County Emergency Management confirmed Thursday morning.The remains were found near Horton by a farmer picking corn, Emergency Manageme
Morris Landscaping and Garden Center is excited to announce the winners of the 2016 Largest Vegetable Contest which they have held for the last three years.Harvest time is the best time to brag about how well the garden did and show pictures of th
The proposed TRIBE Trail took a giant step toward becoming a reality last week when officials were notified that it had received a $75,000 grant.“It’s a big one, and really gets us to work on ‘Phase 1’ of the project,” New Hampton Parks and Recrea
If you pass a New Hampton Light Plant employee working on a power line or trimming a tree these days, don’t look twice.Yes, those hard hats are pink.October is Breast Cancer Awareness and the “color” marking breast cancer is pink, and a few weeks
As of August, Homeland Energy Solutions in Lawler has made over the 1 billion gallons of ethanol that was all produced locally! Kevin Howes, plant manager, said Homeland Energy Solutions has expanded through optimization first and then capital inv
The New Hampton Tribune will once again honor area veterans during Veterans Day week with a commemorative special section.Tribune General Manager Kim Bucknell announced recently that the newspaper would once again publish its Veterans Day Commemor
The weather was perfect — well, almost — and the Exhibit A was the number of people who turned out for Tuesday evening’s Halloween Hikes at Twin Ponds Nature Center.“A frost last night would have cut down on the mosquitoes,” Chickasaw County Conse
No matter what happens in Indianapolis next week, Michael Tupper knows this odyssey was worth it.The 2014 New Hampton High School graduate and 2015-16 state FFA president is running for one of nine national FFA officer positions, and he has spent
