A total solar eclipse was visible from the United States this past Monday, April 8. While Iowa was not in the path of totality which stretched from Texas to Maine in a narrow band, the state did experience somewhere between 70 to 85 percent of the eclipse depending on location. The peak time ...
DES MOINES – Mercedes Wedeking of Reinbeck has been named to the Dean's List for the Winter 2024 quarter at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must attain a grade point average (GPA) between 3.50 and 3.749, in their most recent ...
WATERLOO – Hawkeye Community College will host a public open house for the newly-renovated Grundy Hall on Thursday, April 18, 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Hawkeye’s Main Campus located at 1501 E. Orange Road in Waterloo. After a two-year, $21 million renovation, Grundy Hall was transformed into a ...
TOLEDO – “The School for Spies” is coming to The Wieting Theatre in Toledo. This musical is designed for students of all levels of theater experience. Campers will audition, rehearse, and perform a musical alongside three professional teaching artists… in one week. “The School for ...
REINBECK – Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s 1921 secondary building is old. Out of date. Deteriorating in multiple places. And running out of time. Such was the consensus last Wednesday of many of the roughly 20 community members who attended the district’s fourth of six planned Facility Task ...
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the much discussed Area Education Agencies (AEA) reform bill into law last Wednesday, March 27, just a day after the Iowa Senate approved the legislation. House File 2612 (HF2612) passed the Senate on March 26 on a 30-18 vote, with Sen. Annette Sweeney (R-Iowa Falls) ...
GARWIN – The Garwin Public Library will be hosting Live Animal Wednesdays in April beginning Wednesday, April 3 with snails followed by Ms. Strawberry the Sheep on April 10, Olive the Hedgehog on April 17, and a Tama County Humane Society special guest on April 24. As part of the April 17 ...
GREEN MOUNTAIN – The Green Mountain-Garwin Community School District is hoping third time’s a charm when it comes to new superintendents this school year. Last week Monday (March 18), Kimballton native Chris Petersen, 42, was officially hired as GMG superintendent, replacing interim ...
REINBECK - At 7:30 p.m. on March 19, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Chapter of the National Honor Society met with family and friends to induct its 14 new members. The ceremony was introduced by the faculty advisor, Jennifer Strohbehn. After a brief introduction, the returning members read excerpts ...
REINBECK – Gladbrook-Reinbeck junior Vanessa Arvizu-Ersland has been nominated this year for the Iowa High School Speech Association’s All State Festival for her performance poetry piece. This is Arvizu-Ersland’s first All State performance nomination. At Districts, Arvizu-Ersland ...