Laura Folkerts, an attorney with Shuttleworth & Ingersol in Waterloo and Nashua, presented the supervisors with a commemorative 250th anniversary flag as America gears up for its semiquincentennial ...

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When Matthew Lynch learned that he was going to be promoted to colonel, he thought for a while about where he should have his promotion ceremony. Many officers — both in his beloved Air Force and the ...

Expanding the availability of E-15 ethanol is one of the quickest and most impactful policy decisions that could improve the farm economy, the Iowa secretary of agriculture told a group of farmers and ...

New Hampton football coach Chad Pemble isn’t going to quibble when it comes to the number of Chickasaws who were named to the all-Class 2A, District 3 football teams. Sure, would he have liked more?

Jennifer Eichenberger remembers that day years ago when her family lost its swine barn, but what really sticks in the New Hampton High School senior’s mind is what came next. And it’s one reason the ...

After more than a year of parish meetings, study, feedback and “prayerful discernment,” the Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque announced Friday the final structure for reorganizing its 160 local parishes ...

Life would not be the same for the Tupper family of Poppe Farms without the two F’s — farming and family. And throw in a third F word, friends, too, and you’ve got the reason that the family’s machine ...

It’s felt a lot like winter during Thanksgiving week, and if the forecast is right, by the time we finish off the holiday weekend, it’s going to look a lot like winter. “As much as I want our girls to ...

All that’s needed now for Chickasaw County’s 2026-27 budget and tax levy is for supervisors to sign off on the proverbial dotted line. This much is for sure: It’s been a much quieter “budget season” ...

It’s a tradition like no other for high school students, and those at New Hampton High School are certainly no exception. So this past Saturday, they did all the “prom things” — they dressed up, they ...

Sometimes, it’s the little things that make us thankful. Or, maybe I should say it’s the “littles” who remind me to smile. Case in point, the “how-to-cook-a-turkey” tradition we started here at the ...