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Garwin News

Garwin Public Library staying busy in early 2024

GARWIN – On Leap Day, the Garwin Public Library hosted the third annual GMG preschool class field trip with two sets of roughly 20 kids in each set. Students learned about all of the free services a library offers, and each was able to check out a book to take back to school. There was ...

GMG, Baxter to share superintendent next school year

GREEN MOUNTAIN – During a special meeting of the Green Mountain-Garwin school board held on March 7, a pair of motions were approved allowing the district to both enter into a superintendent sharing agreement with Baxter Community School District beginning next school year while also hiring ...

GMG to explore superintendent sharing with Baxter

GREEN MOUNTAIN – In a decision few probably saw coming, the GMG Board of Education approved a motion Monday night to explore the possibility of sharing a superintendent with Baxter Community School District in Jasper County. With newly-installed Interim-Superintendent Gary Sinclair at the ...

Garwin Lions Club donates $500 toward new fire, ambulance station

GARWIN – The Garwin Lions recently presented a donation of $500 to the Garwin Fire Department earmarked for the building fund. The fund was established to construct a new building to house the current fire and ambulance equipment. The Garwin Lions Club, established in 1957, currently has 18 ...

GMG to host blood drive March 15

Embrace the Luck of the Irish: Donate Blood this St. Patrick's Day Season! Every 2 seconds, someone needs a lifesaving blood transfusion. Your local hospital relies entirely on blood donors from the community through LifeServe. Let's paint the town green with acts of kindness! Roll up your ...

GMG elementary teacher placed on paid administrative leave

GREEN MOUNTAIN – A Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) elementary teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave. According to Central Rivers AEA Chief Joel Pedersen, who acted as GMG Interim-Superintendent from Jan. 11 through Feb. 14, the teacher, who is not being identified as no criminal ...

GMG duo bowls to 8th place as members of Marshalltown team

WATERLOO — A young Marshalltown boys bowling team which includes two GMG bowlers couldn’t maintain a strong start, finishing eighth in the Class 3A state team tournament at Cadillac XBC on Monday night. The Bobcats finished seventh in the 15-Baker pre-bracket play with 2,901 pins. In ...

Stein resigns as GMG superintendent following medical leave

GARWIN – After two months of uncertainty during which the chief of Central Rivers AEA stepped in to fill the vacancy, Green Mountain-Garwin Community School District Superintendent Kym Stein, who first took medical leave in December, has resigned from the position effective ...

Woodbury sinks 1,000th career point

GARWIN – The GMG boys’ basketball team used a balanced attack to bounce Collins-Maxwell in last Friday’s Iowa Star Conference South Division game, 86-75, but one player certainly stood out above the rest – senior Jabari Woodbury who, while piling up 22 points total against the ...

GMG high school classes canceled for broken pipes

GARWIN – The GMG Community School District did not escape last month’s problem of frozen water pipes caused by wind chills falling to around -25 degrees. On Tuesday Jan. 16, the school district had not yet discovered any broken pipes. Officials took steps to cancel classes that day because ...