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Q&A: 2019 Floods With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Q: What's the forecast for flood damages and recovery in Iowa? A: Throughout my years representing Iowans, natural disasters have tested the grit and resilience of people across our great state. It's never easy and it's always heart-breaking, especially when lives are lost. Following an ...

District 72 – Rep. Dean Fisher

We continued with debate in earnest this week. Along with debate, we received many visitors. The Farm Bureau once again filled the rotunda with their members, including many of the board members from the Tama County Farm Bureau, Emily Ewoldt, Megan Eichmiller, Reid Monroe, Tyler Beenken, and ...

Q&A: 2019 Floods With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Q: What’s the forecast for flood damages and recovery in Iowa? A: Throughout my years representing Iowans, natural disasters have tested the grit and resilience of people across our great state. It’s never easy and it’s always heart-breaking, especially when lives are lost. Following an ...

Looking Back ~ From the Archives of the Reinbeck Courier-By Laura Beard

10 YEARS AGO APRIL 9. 2009 Kandie Vaughn was chosen 3rd District Am. Legion Auxiliary Woman of the Year at the spring conference held in Gladbrook on Saturday March 28. Marvin Cook was inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame for 2009. Patricia ...

Touring the Skies By Jim Bonser (jbonser@usa.net)

Ps. 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be writing about the night skies of April. After all, it was a birthday present more than 50 years ago that got me started with this lifelong interest and ...

Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Familiarity breeds contempt – or confusion

I saw someone familiar at the store today. I knew that I knew her or at least that I’d had cause to interact with her on several or perhaps a few occasions. Problem is, I couldn’t pinpoint exactly which occasions. I was at the grocery store and she wasn’t a person from the grocery store. ...

Looking Back ~ From the Archives of the Reinbeck Courier-By Laura Beard

10 YEARS AGO April 2, 2009 Sharon Wambold is training to ride America’s most beautiful bike ride in Lake Tahoo, N.M.on June 7 for the Leukemia & Lymphhoma Society Team. Area fire departments assisted in a training burn at Heartland Coop in Holland on March 28. Jim Miller, Reinbeck, ...

Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Measuring life in meatballs

Yesterday I made meatballs for dinner. No big deal, but it got me to thinking. I can throw a from-scratch batch of meatballs together in no time. I toss the ingredients into my meatball bowl like it’s not hard – because it isn’t. It hasn’t always been this way. Meatballs haven’t ...