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Mason City men charged with Reinbeck, Dike burglaries

Nearly two months after a string of burglaries in Dike and Reinbeck, including two Dike banks where the thieves attempted to remove the ATMs, two Mason City men have been arrested in connection with the incidents. Ryan Marek, 30, was arrested in Garner on a Grundy County warrant on March 1 and ...

G-R Board approves early retirement policy

In a 4-3 split vote the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Board of Education voted in favor of offering an early retirement incentive to district employees with an application deadline of March 17. The proposed incentive policy was first before the board during their January meeting but failed to pass ...

Survey results inform G-R facility assessment process

More than 300 residents of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District provided their input and feedback on the district’s facility needs through a recent survey. The survey allowed community members to review the district’s needs, share what they consider to be the highest-priority ...

DNR to terminate park manager housing at Union Grove

A change is coming later this year that will remove park rangers and managers from their state-owned houses at 23 state parks throughout the state of Iowa, including Union Grove State Park in western Tama County. In a story first reported by The Gazette in early February, it was revealed that ...

Court action taken against nuisance property owner

A bench warrant is just the latest development in the years-long legal wranglings between the City of Gladbrook and a downtown commercial property owner as the city works to abate three nuisance properties. According to a petition for abatement filed by the City of Gladbrook against property ...

Hinson talks small business in Tama County

With the condition of the U.S. economy at the forefront of conversations from Wall Street down to the kitchen table this year, it came as no surprise that U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) would be focusing on business-related issues during a central Iowa swing through tour last week. On ...

Meggers making a run at open House 54 seat

With the decennial census and legislative redistricting process recently completed, portions of the State House and State Senate maps have been left without an incumbent candidate headed into the 2022 November election. For the past 10 years the city of Reinbeck and Grundy County have been ...

GMG schools eyeing early March for full return to classrooms

A month after a water pipe break caused major damage at the GMG Secondary school in Garwin, progress has remained steady toward a target of March 6 for all junior high and senior high students to return to 100 percent in-person learning. On Jan. 7 Secondary Principal Jaimie Gargas and teacher ...

Gladbrook-Reinbeck seeks community input through facilities survey

The Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board is inviting residents to take a community-wide survey to provide input on how the district can best address its facility needs. At this time, the board is considering a facilities renovation project that would help maximize the opportunities available to ...

New supervisor districts approved

New political boundaries for the three supervisor seats in Tama County have been drawn and approved for the next 10 years. The county-level redistricting process comes as a domino effect from the information drawn by the 2020 census and the state and federal redistricting maps approved by the ...