Two snapshots from the Plum Creek Arts Festival may say it all when it comes to the quaint little festival that has become a rite of July in Fredericksburg.
Although young attentions wavered from time to time, one boy in particular was listening intently to Iowa State University entomology students Jillian Kurovski and Emily Gamble.
The budget has been a concern and a source of much frustration for many months, and the new fiscal year will bring many cuts to all the departments across the board which will make it a rough year for the city of Nashua.
Juanita Andersen wanted to make one thing perfectly clear before she commenced talking about “A Healing Presence,” the book she is writing to help the 100th anniversary of Mercy Medical Center-New Hampton.
As Iowa’s new governor toured three New Hampton businesses Tuesday, she was told that two of them — Dungey’s Furniture and Flooring and the Blue Iris — rebuilt in the city after suffering devastating fires.
The kids — and not to mention a few adults — filled the floor at the New Hampton Community Center last Friday.
And they built a bunch of cool contraptions with Legos ... all for the love of reading.
The man in charge of Iowa’s election system takes voting integrity very seriously, but he believes the flap over Russian intervention in the 2016 election has been blown “way out of proportion.”
