DES MOINES – Delaney Petersen, a Gladbrook-Reinbeck Class of 2024 alumna, represented her alma mater in the FFA lamb shows at the 2025 Iowa State Fair. Delaney will graduate from Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) this coming December.
DES MOINES – Riah Schrage of Grundy County was crowned the 2025 Iowa State Fair Queen on Saturday, Aug. 9, on the Anne and Bill Riley Stage on the fairgrounds in Des Moines. The daughter of Landon and Cassie Schrage, Riah was chosen out of the 102 contestants who advanced from local ...
REINBECK – For all the accolades Drew Eilers has reaped during his high school career at Gladbrook-Reinbeck, his most recent – the 2024-25 Spring-Summer Corn Belt Award and Scholarship from Bound and Wyffels Hybrids – might just be his ‘sweetest’ yet. On Wednesday, July 30, right ...
GRUNDY CENTER – For Kinzee Hemann, a rising junior at Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School, this summer’s county fair season has been nothing short of extraordinary. A longtime 4-H and FFA member, Hemann showed four pigs at the Grundy County Fair last month and came away with some ...
TOLEDO – Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Abe Dieleman of rural Toledo and Ryan Hosek of rural Traer have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dieleman is a Green ...
Grundy County livestock exhibitor, Delany Schafer, is pictured here with the Market Beef Champion and will advance to the finale in Oskaloosa this Sunday.
IOWA – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently announced construction is starting on a “batch and build” water quality project in Grundy and Tama Counties. This project, led by Heartland Co-op, will include the installation of 14 saturated buffers and four bioreactors. These ...
LYONS, Neb. — As solar energy projects continue to grow across the U.S., a fact sheet from the Center for Rural Affairs outlines how new development can be designed to protect soil health, reduce erosion, and maintain long-term agricultural productivity. The newly released fact sheet, ...
GRUNDY CENTER – The Grundy County Fair Board successfully hosted the 2025 All-American Grundy County Fair last week beginning Monday, July 21, on the fairgrounds in Grundy Center. “A huge shoutout to our amazing 4-H, FFA, and Clover Kids – you poured your hearts into your animals, ...
Sun Courier Note: This story will publish in the Friday, Aug. 8 print edition of the newspaper. TOLEDO - This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting saw a pivotal turn in the epic wind turbine saga. After years of fighting, litigation, and back-and-forth, the supervisors agreed to ...