GRUNDY CENTER – Local students pursuing careers in health care are among the recipients of $13,500 in scholarships awarded by the Grundy County Memorial Hospital Foundation. Nine students received the $1,500 scholarship awards, including Gladbrook resident Emma Koester, who is enrolled ...
REINBECK – Gia Harris, a member of the Reinbeck Public Library, and her family recently completed the monumental task of reading 1000 books before kindergarten. Gia began her challenge in August of 2022 — meaning she has listened to 1000 books in just one year! She has listened to an ...
Gladbrook High School graduates gathered at the Memorial Building in Gladbrook recently for a reunion. Those deemed to have been Gladbrook’s graduates the longest were all from the 1940s. Carolyn Buck Goettch took top honors, having graduated in 1946. Right behind her were Pauline Wentzien ...
TRAER – North Tama and Traer’s honored alumni will gather for a reunion on Friday and Saturday, August 11 and 12 during this year’s Winding Stairs Festival. Eight honored classes have been specially invited to attend the festivities including Traer’s class of 1953 (70 years) and ...
GLADBROOK – Earlier this month on July 13, newly appointed G-R Superintendent Caleb Bonjour was officially introduced to the southern half of his consolidated school district during a ‘meet and greet’ held on his behalf at the Gladbrook Memorial Building. Bonjour — pronounced ...
TOLEDO – Summer is coming, and many families are growing home gardens. Preserving your garden’s summer bounty is a great way to enjoy your home-grown produce year-round – as long as you don’t serve food borne illness, like botulism, with your home-preserved foods, say specialists with ...
IOWA FALLS – Eighty-six students have completed all requirements of their respective degree programs as of the end of the Spring 2023 semester and are now graduates of Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls including Jada Schlampp of Reinbeck. These graduates were honored with their ...
Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School parents will receive “mail-in” registration information for the 2023-2024 school year via the US Postal Service around July 15, 2023. This packet will include information on how to register school-aged children. For the 2023-2024 School Year, parents may ...
GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District will hold a Superintendent Meet & Greet with incoming superintendent Caleb Bonjour in Gladbrook on Thursday, July 13 beginning at 5:30 p.m. ahead of the scheduled school board meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Both the meet & ...
CEDAR FALLS – Gladbrook-Reinbeck educator Jennifer Strohbehn is one of 82 teachers participating in the 2023 Iowa STEM Teacher Externships Program, which provides teachers the opportunity to work at local STEM businesses, nonprofits, government services and other workplaces to gain work ...