News

Community Input Needed for 2025 Brown County Health Needs Assessment

May 24, 2025

Survey now open; a Wednesday, July 23 town hall planned to share results and identify priorities.

HAP to open for season next week

May 23, 2025

The Hiawatha Aquatic Park (HAP) is gearing up to open for another summer season.

Hiawatha Community Foundation hosting Match Days on Memorial Day weekend

May 22, 2025

A banner for the Hiawatha Community Foundation Match Days event was hung on Hiawatha’s City Hall on the week of Friday, May 16, the week after Mayor Becky Shamburg made the proclamation that the week of May 18 to May 24 would be deemed as Community Foundation Week, which is the same week that the Foundation will be hosting its Match Days event at the Fisher Center on the morning of Friday, May 23 and the afternoon of Saturday, May 24.

Saluting our fallen Brown County Veterans

May 22, 2025

Every Memorial Day, the Hiawatha World updates and publishes a list of Brown County veterans.

Service of Remembrance

May 22, 2025

The Brown County Historical Society

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Brown County attorney discusses last term in position

May 22, 2025

Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill discussed with the commissioners about the 2026 county attorney budget, as well as stating that this would be his last term as county attorney.

All caps off for HHS graduates of 2025

May 21, 2025

The Hiawatha High School Class of 2025 threw their hats in the air to commemorate the end of the graduation ceremony that took place at the HHS gym on Sunday, May 18.

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Hiawatha Municipal Court

May 21, 2025

Hiawatha Municipal Court actions for the month of April 2025, Ted Collins, Judge.

Highland Community College Technical Center Students Recognized at the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference in Orlando

May 21, 2025

Students from Highland Community College Technical Center (HCCTC) Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapter were among the nearly 7,000 attendees representing nearly 800 school chapters who attended the 2025 BPA National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida, May 7-11.