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Grundy County News

Meet Your Local Candidates: Justin Hornberg

GMG School Board Candidate: Justin Hornberg Age: 45 Profession: Location Manager New Century FS Garwin Education: AA from MCC Family: Wife-Kari, Daughter-Lexie, Son-Jarrett What motivated you to run for this office? I have been asked in the past about running for the board and ...

Gladbrook Briefs

Veterans Day supper in Gladbrook The Gladbrook American Legion Auxiliary is hosting a Veterans Day Supper on Mon., Nov. 8th, 6:30 at the Memorial Building. Please bring a dish to share. Legion Auxiliary Department, District and County officers will be present. There will be a video of ...

Local UAW 838 members part of strike at Deere Waterloo Works

Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 838 who live in Tama and Grundy counties and work for John Deere Waterloo Works were part of the more than 10,000 Deere union workers in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas who went on strike at midnight on Thursday, October 14 after the tractor ...

When all else fails, put a kiko goat on it

Hiring out a herd of goats for weed management has led to big business for one Tama County farmer. Adam Ledvina, 30, of Chelsea owns and operates Iowa Kiko Goats and Blue Collar Goatscaping — respectively a commercial breeding and meat goat business combined with a prescribed goat grazing ...

Noah’s Love benefit returns for third year

Noah’s Love 3rd Childhood Cancer Fundraiser will be held Saturday, November 6, 2021, at the Lincoln Amvet Hall in Lincoln from 4:30 p.m. to midnight. There will again be a silent auction, raffle and meal along with live entertainment provided by the Craig Gerdes Band. The meal will begin ...

Clover Kids explore pumpkins

Twelve 4-H youth and five adult volunteers gathered for the Reinbeck Clover Kids’ monthly 4-H meeting in October. Youth, grades K-3rd explored pumpkins and their lifecycle through fun (and messy) hands-on activities. “Making the pumpkin slime was my favorite part!” first grader, Brig ...

Lewis competes in NBHA barrel horse event

Madison Lewis of Garwin brings her horse down the home stretch at the Iowa National Barrel Horse Association District 3 competition on Oct. 10. Lewis was among several competitors from an 18-county region throughout northeast Iowa competing over two days at the Ridge Riders Arena in Toledo. ...

Reinbeck 4-H helps pack meals

Twelve Reinbeck 4-H youth and six adult 4-H volunteers gathered at the United Church of Christ in Reinbeck on September 25 to package meals for the hungry which were distributed to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank in Waterloo, and local food pantries in Reinbeck, Gladbrook and Traer. The Reinbeck ...

Reminders for Grundy Co. voters

The regular city/school election will be held as a combined election on November 2, 2021. The city/school election will use the regular general election precincts. Voters will go to the polls for this election at the same place that they vote for a regular general (presidential or ...

Tama County Young Guns compete at State

The Annual 4-H Youth State Shooting Match was held August 28 at Brownell’s Big Springs Range near Montezuma. Over 100 4-H members explored the sport of shooting, hunting and sportsmanship skills at the state level, which consisted of six different disciplines: air rifle, shotgun, smallbore ...