REINBECK – Reinbeck voters overwhelmingly approved a public measure to establish a continuing capital improvements reserve fund and corresponding levy this past Tuesday as part of a city special election. According to unofficial results obtained from the Grundy County Auditor’s Office, ...
REINBECK – With the snip of a ribbon last Thursday, the community of Reinbeck officially doubled its local banking options. “A couple years ago … we thought, what's another great community in Grundy County that we can go and be a part of?” Peoples Savings Bank President and CEO Eric ...
REINBECK – Equity Bancshares, Inc., the Wichita-based holding company of Equity Bank, along with Lincoln Bancorp, the parent company of Lincoln Savings Bank, headquartered in Reinbeck, announced last week Thursday, Sept. 3, they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for Lincoln to ...
MARSHALLTOWN – One of the few remaining World War II veterans in central Iowa passed away recently at the Iowa Veterans Home (IVH) in Marshalltown. Ralph Alshouse, 102, an IVH resident and a Navy pilot during World War II, died Aug. 21 at the facility, according to Commandant Todd ...
TOLEDO – After the light switch was flipped and the sun lit up a muggy, humid Monday morning, Aug. 31, the usual bunch of bureaucratic rubberneckers made their way to the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The meeting began with the roads report, which stated that they are ...
TOLEDO – Rural law enforcement officials from across central Iowa used a recent roundtable with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to raise concerns about mental health services, staffing, grant access, state policy, and the growing number of responsibilities falling on small ...
TAMA – Rep. Dean Fisher of Montour thought his chess-playing days were over after giving up the mind sport half a century ago following high school. But through his work with the private, non-denominational K-8 Tama-Toledo Christian School, he’s picked up the game again after all these ...
IOWA – Iowa PBS will host televised debates for candidates running for Iowa governor, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives this fall. Iowa PBS will host a debate for Iowa’s gubernatorial race, bringing together Zach Lahn (R-Belle Plaine) and Rob Sand (D-Des Moines) to ...
REINBECK – With municipal budgets continuing to tighten statewide, voters in the City of Reinbeck will head to the polls next Tuesday, Sept. 8, for a special election on a public measure to establish a continuing capital improvements reserve fund and impose a levy of 67.5 cents per $1,000 ...
WATERLOO – The reigning Iowa Music Awards Country Artist of the Year, local favorite Katie and the Honky Tonks, are back with “Last Call Lies,” their first new release since last year’s breakout debut album, “Ain’t No Shame.” If you’ve been hankering for another dose of ...