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Education

GMG Fall 2025 Academic Awards

GARWIN – GMG Secondary recently announced the Fall 2025 Academic Awards recipients. Congratulations to all the honorees! Superintendent’s Honor Roll: Students must earn straight As and a 4.0 grade point average. Recipients include seventh-graders Jenna Beichley, Adeline Kulhavy, Dayton ...

Sophia Folkerts named to Dean’s List

PELLA – Central College recognizes students each semester who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement by naming them to the Dean's List. Earning this honor is: Sophia Folkerts, Reinbeck, in the Class of 2026. This distinction is reserved for those who have earned a semester ...

Local students named to Buena Vista University Fall 2025 Dean’s List

STORM LAKE – Buena Vista University congratulates more than 560 students who were named to the Fall 2025 Dean's List. The Dean's List recognizes full-time students achieving a 3.5 grade point average or higher for the semester. Local honorees include: –Haven Bovenmyer of ...

Meskwaki historical preservation director opens doors for Tribal Museums Day

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — ”If you want to learn about indigenous people, go talk to them.” That was the advice Suzanne Buffalo shared as the tribe’s cultural center and museum was open for special weekend hours on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in conjunction with National Tribal Museums Day. ...

Wesley Latchman named to Coe College’s Fall 2025 Dean’s List

CEDAR RAPIDS – Coe College is recognizing its highest performing students as members of the Dean's List, including Wesley Latchman of Reinbeck who is currently among this elite group. Latchman has been named to the prestigious Fall 2025 Dean's List at Coe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Past members ...

Roegner named to fall 2025 Dean’s List at Belmont University

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Annaliese Roegner of Gladbrook was among over half of Belmont University's undergraduate students named to the fall 2025 semester Dean's List. Approximately 55% of the University's 6,934 undergraduate students qualified this semester. "The high percentage of students ...

Hark! The GMG Carolers Sing

GLADBROOK – On Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, GMG Elementary students in grades fifth and sixth took a field trip to Westbrook Acres in Gladbrook as part of the school’s annual tradition of caroling with the nursing facility’s residents. Per a post on social media following the trip, the ...

GMG school board welcomes new directors

GARWIN – The GMG Community School District Board of Education held its annual organizational meeting on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, at the high school in Garwin during which the oath of office was administered to newly-elected directors, including District 1 Director Lacey Boege, At-Large Director ...

It all adds up

REINBECK – Following a recount, the results are in and margins remain the same: Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District’s $17.3 million bond referendum passed on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, by 17 votes. “Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District has received the completed recount ...

There’s no place like … the Gladbrook-Reinbeck fall musical!

REINBECK – There was most certainly no place like the Gladbrook-Reinbeck JH/HS Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 15, and Sunday, Nov. 16, as the high school drama department staged an absolutely stellar production of “The Wizard of Oz.” From lead Jayla Hemann’s impeccable depiction of ...