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Gladbrook ​​Memorial Day Services Schedule

Services will take place on Monday, May 26, 2025. Short Services 8:00 a.m.: 15-Mile Grove (Lincoln Township) 8:20 a.m.: Maple Hill 8:45 a.m.: Badger Hill 9:10 a.m.: Chapel Cemetery 9:30 a.m.: Union Grove Cemetery 9:50 a.m.: Union Grove Lake Beach (for those lost at sea) 10:15 ...

Gladbrook Legion Auxiliary distributes poppies

GLADBROOK – Members of the Gladbrook American Legion Auxiliary distributed poppies on Gladbrook Main Street and at Casey’s on Friday, May 9. The Auxiliary would like to thank all the businesses for the courtesies extended to the members. All proceeds from poppy sales go to our veterans ...

Mental Health Awareness Month in Tama County

TOLEDO – The Tama County Board of Supervisors held two meetings between Friday, May 2, and Monday, May 5 – double the meetings, double the fun. The first meeting which took place that Friday, had a few different agenda items, the most interesting being the acceptance of the resignation ...

Pork in the Pantry provides 75K servings to those in need

IOWA – County pork organizations across the state stepped up in a big way this year for the Pork in the Pantry program. A total of 47 county organizations, including Grundy County Pork Producers, participated in the program, donating more than 18,000 pounds of pork, totaling almost 75,000 ...

‘I suspect it’s going to be different’

Editor's Note: This story will publish in the Friday, May 23, edition of the Sun Courier. OTTER CREEK LAKE – Tama County’s new naturalist and an alleged lack of programming dominated public comment during the Wednesday, May 7 meeting of the Board of Conservation. “On March 24, I ...

Rebel boys golfers advance to districts with bronze at Belle Plaine

BELLE PLAINE – For the first time in a long time, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys golf team has qualified for the district meet. “This is the first time the team has advanced in many years,” G-R head coach Corissa Snider told the newspaper, “We aren’t sure the exact amount [of ...

Remembering the fallen 50 years later

Editor’s Note: This is the second and sixth stories in a series of nine first published by the Times-Republican newspaper honoring the 32 men from Grundy, Hardin, Marshall and Tama counties who perished during the Vietnam War including one man considered as missing-in-action. From Nov. 1, ...

Bru, Cornwell earn Iowa FFA Degrees

AMES – Two members of the Green Mountain-Garwin FFA Chapter – Jay Bru and Jacob Cornwell – were awarded the coveted Iowa FFA Degree at the 97th Annual Iowa FFA Leadership Conference in Ames held on April 15. The Iowa FFA Degree is the highest degree conferred on student members by the ...

Arvizu-Ersland, Mussig recognized by Gov. Reynolds for Academic Excellence

DES MOINES – Vanessa Arvizu-Ersland, a student at Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School, and Anna Mussig, a student at Green Mountain-Garwin High School, were among the 424 Iowa high school seniors recognized by Gov. Kim Reynolds and Lt. Governor Chris Cournoyer for outstanding academic achievement ...

Trio local Reinbeck businesses receive facade improvement grants

REINBECK – Time for an upgrade! The Reinbeck Development Committee recently announced its latest round of facade improvement grants with three downtown businesses benefitting this year including The Dig Inn located at 113 Broad Street; Windy Pines Properties located at 427 Main Street (the ...