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Gladbrook News

Community voice needed for future planning

Reinbeck – The Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District is looking for community voice and input regarding District facility planning. The District is searching for community members who would be interested in joining a Facility Task Force. Members will explore, brainstorm, and evaluate ...

Gladbrook Legion and Auxiliary to meet Feb. 19

The Gladbrook Legion and Auxiliary will meet on Monday, Feb. 19, beginning at 6:30 p.m. for a furnished soup supper by the Legion. SAL and fire department and ambulance personnel are invited to attend. Each group will have their own meetings following the supper.

Alpha Study Club January meeting minutes

Alpha Study Club met at the Peace Church for the January 23 meeting with Pam Thomas as hostess. In the absence of President Avriel Koester, Jo Anne Sash opened the meeting with a reading on January. Roll call was answered by 12 members. The Secretary's and Treasurer's reports were read and ...

G-R hosts master planning ‘listening session’ in Gladbrook

GLADBROOK – After voters in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck school district firmly said ‘no’ in September 2022 to a $23.6 million bond referendum that would have addressed much needed facility upgrades, the district has switched up its approach to master planning by enlisting the services of a ...

Gladbrook Women’s Club January News

The Gladbrook Women's Club met on Thursday, January 11 with Lynne Sash presenting the program on Wartime Cooking. She displayed many cookbooks that used rationed goods to provide meals. Ration books were discussed and talked of ration points and propaganda. The cookbooks even had information on ...

GMG senior Lilly Bru crowned 2024 Iowa Pork Queen

Lilly Bru has been named the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen. Bru of Gladbrook, Abby Elsamiller of Waverly, and Aubrey Johnson of Iowa Falls were honored last week as the 2024 Iowa Pork Youth Leadership Team. They were selected during Iowa Pork Congress held in Des Moines. The Iowa Pork Producers ...

Bru finalist for 2024 Iowa Youth Pork Leadership Team

Sun Courier note: Since this story went to press, Lilly Bru was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen. A story about her crowning will print in a future edition. GLADBROOK – Rural Gladbrook resident and GMG High School senior Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru was recently announced as one of eight ...

Trump takes Tama County

TAMA COUNTY – In the end, it really wasn’t much of a contest. Much like the rest of Iowa, Republican caucusgoers in Tama County overwhelmingly favored one candidate Monday night for the 2024 presidential nominee – former president Donald Trump who garnered more than 58% of the caucus ...

School, church communities wrap family of Diderik Peterson in prayer, love

GRUNDY CENTER – The greater Gladbrook-Reinbeck/Grundy Center communities lovingly stepped up in recent days to embrace Gladbrook native Tarrence Peterson – a member of the G-R High School Class of 2003 – and his young Grundy Center family following a tragic set of events that took the ...

Quilt of Valor presented to Gladbrook’s John Clausen

Long time barber and Veteran John Clausen, of Gladbrook, US Army, National Guard, Reserve, was awarded a Quilt of Valor in his home by Central Iowa Quilt Sew-ciety members Marvis Drew and Rose Russell. Shown in picture left to right are his wife Pat, Clausen and Russell.