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Education

Reinbeck’s Karlie Rickert awarded scholarship

Fifteen northeast Iowa students will each receive a $1,000 scholarship next school year for health care-related studies. The Friends of MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center as well as the Friends of MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center came together to select and honor the 2022 Friends as well as ...

G-R Jr-Sr High School Honor Roll 2021-2022

7th Grade Baer, Ayla Bassett, Jasmine Beard, Prycely Bell, Lane Blohm, Tyson Bowser, Caleb Boyer, Avery Brubaker, Grace Carley, Autumn Cheville, Jada Fogt, Elly Hemann, Kinzee Hemann, Kinzie Payton Herron, Treyvon Knaack, Anthony Larsen, Kailey Larsen, ...

G-R staff honored for years of service

On the morning of Friday, May 27, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District held its annual end-of-year celebration breakfast hosted by members of the school board. G-R staff members were honored during the breakfast for their years of service. Those honored include Shelly Fogt, Peggy ...

GMG celebrates Commencement 2022

GMG Commencement was held at Garwin on May 15. Thirty-nine students were on the class roll. The class motto was: “Today is the tomorrow we dreamed about yesterday.” Salutatorian Abe Dieleman presented the Welcome to the large crowd. The Senior Video was shown. Put together by the Senior ...

Brockett receives Outstanding Graduating Senior award

Earlier this month, Sadie Brockett of Reinbeck received Iowa State University’s Spring 2022 Outstanding Graduating Senior award in construction engineering. Following graduation, Brockett plans to return to the GeoStabilization International internship program for a second summer before ...

Friends of T-55 FFA give out scholarships for third straight year

The Friends of T-55 FFA have supported the student members of the T-55 FFA chapter from the Dike-New Hartford and Gladbrook-Reinbeck school districts for the last three years. This year the Friends of T-55 FFA provided scholarships of $500 to the following high school seniors: Haven Cross, ...

4-H Youth Programs Open To All

Tama County 4-H is excited to offer these summer programs to all youth of Tama County. On Their Own and OK Those who have completed grades 4-6 will spend the day learning about what they can do when they are home alone for a short period of time. We will talk about safety and how to handle ...

Master Gardener floral arranging series sparks creativity in the community

Registration is open for Floral Arranging with the Tama County Master Gardeners and Iowa State University. The Iowa Master Gardener Program with Tama County Extension and Outreach will host a new Floral Arranging series including hands-on instruction with renowned floral expert, Dan Brabec. ...

Gladbrook-Reinbeck and Green Mountain-Garwin hold Commencement

Both the Gladbrook-Reinbeck and Green Mountain-Garwin high schools held Commencement for the Class of 2022 this past Sunday, May 15, in their respective gymnasiums. A separate story by Margaret Thomsen detailing GMG’s ceremony will be featured in next week’s edition of the Sun ...

GMG students set to earn MCC degree before high school diploma

It’s not often that a high school student will earn a college degree before receiving his/her high school diploma, but fifty area seniors are on track to do just that. Earning your high school diploma may seem like a common accomplishment. The fact that such a high number of area high ...