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Celebrate ISU Extension and Outreach Week

IOWA – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Week is April 7-12. Iowa’s 100 county extension offices will host “I Spy Cy” activities and educational events throughout the week to thank Iowans for their support of ISU Extension and Outreach throughout the state. “This ...

Gladbrook Community Foundation 2025 grant applications due April 25

GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook Community Foundation is pleased to announce they are now accepting grant applications from area non-profit groups for the 2025 grant cycle. The Foundation accepts and disburses contributions exclusively for educational, cultural, charitable, or benevolent purposes ...

Gladbrook Auxiliary meeting set for April 14

GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook American Legion Auxiliary will meet on Monday, April 14, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at the Memorial Building. Hostesses are Dinny Nielsen and Jolene Denbow.

Gladbrook Senior Citizens Dinner set for April 10

GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook Senior Citizens dinner will be held on Thursday, April 10, beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Memorial Building. The Gladbrook Women’s Club will be serving. Call Jeanne to make reservations at 641-751-2039 or for a delivery.

‘Sometimes the basketball just doesn’t bounce your way on the rim’

DES MOINES – Basketball has motivated a tight-knit group of Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior athletes from a young age. The game can take as much as it gives, though, and that pain was visited on the Rebels in their Class 1A state semifinal on Thursday, March 13. G-R made just one of 13 shot ...

‘When six-on-six girls’ basketball packed Iowa gyms’

MARSHALLTOWN – From Gladbrook to the former Southeast Marshall County (SEMCO) to Maynard — former players, referees and fans recalled the excitement of girls’ six-on-six basketball in Iowa on March 11 at the Mowry-Irvine Mansion in Marshalltown. The memories of epic contests in local ...

Tama County Conservation to absorb deep cuts amid county’s budget woes

OTTER CREEK LAKE – Fallout from Tama County’s general fund shortfall has now cut deeper into the Conservation budget. During the Thursday, March 13, meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, director Curtis Behrens told board members that in addition to the $100,000 the Board of ...

Former GMG superintendent takes on new sharing agreement

CONRAD — Longtime BCLUW Superintendent Ben Petty, who previously served in a shared role with GMG from 2011 to 2021, will soon take on a new split position with another area “alphabet soup” school district — AGWSR — beginning July 1. At AGWSR, Petty will replace Erik Smith, who ...

Rep. Hinson assembles Tama County law enforcement roundtable

TOLEDO — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) gathered law enforcement professionals from the Tama, Toledo, Dysart and Meskwaki Nation police departments as well as the Tama County Sheriff’s Office for what she described as “a working lunch” at Murph’s Creamery and Grill in Toledo over ...