The Des Moines National Weather Service has produced a weather briefing concerning hazardous weather Wednesday afternoon and evening for much of Iowa including Grundy and Tama counties. A fast moving line of severe thunderstorms is expected with damaging winds likely – rapidly moving from ...

The sounds of warm holiday music filled the halls of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Junior/Senior High School on Monday, Dec. 6. The G-R Fine Arts Department held its annual Winter Band and Choir Concert for grades 5-12. The concert began with performances from the 6th Grade and Junior High bands ...

The Gladbrook community kicked off the holiday season with the 24th Christmas Tree Lighting Festivities on Wednesday, Dec. 1. It was also the lighting of the 16th Festival of Trees in the City Center. It was a beautiful warm December night. We believe this was the largest crowd we have ever had ...

Efforts are underway on a project that would convert a downtown Reinbeck building into multi-family housing. The Reinbeck City Council heard from Allan Rhodes, chair of the city’s Planning and Zoning Committee regarding a recommendation from the committee to approve a rezoning request on ...

Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior Paul Brocket was honored as a recipient of the Academic All-State Award by the Iowa Association of Track Coaches organization recently. This fall, Brockett finished his final cross country season with the GC/G-R team having competed at the state meet each of his four ...

Shawn D. Kracht received his 15-year service award from Gary Mauer, Grundy County Engineer during a recent meeting of the Grundy County Board of Supervisors. Kracht is an employee of the Secondary Road Department. Contributed photo

The Gladbrook American Legion Auxiliary members met on Nov. 29 to make popcorn balls for the Santa Sacks. The group made 400 balls. June Klinefelter made caramel corn for the Westbrook Acres Santa Sacks. The Santa Sacks were handed out at the Gladbrook Tree Lighting by Santa Claus in the ...

With one in eight Iowa children facing food insecurity, Iowa Select Farms, under the leadership of the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation, are driving the change to help end childhood hunger. Through the Power Snack program, Iowa Select Farms employees will be giving ham and bread coupons, along ...

The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team held its Annual Banquet on Sunday, November 7. Attendees were entertained with a video capturing 2021 activities and a tribute to the graduating high school seniors. During 2021, members helped the Iowa Beef Industry Council with the Baby’s First Bites campaign, ...