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Gladbrook-Reinbeck seeks community input through facilities survey

The Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board is inviting residents to take a community-wide survey to provide input on how the district can best address its facility needs. At this time, the board is considering a facilities renovation project that would help maximize the opportunities available to ...

New supervisor districts approved

New political boundaries for the three supervisor seats in Tama County have been drawn and approved for the next 10 years. The county-level redistricting process comes as a domino effect from the information drawn by the 2020 census and the state and federal redistricting maps approved by the ...

Reinbeck Announces Girl State Candidate

Reinbeck American Legion Auxiliary Unit 242 is pleased to announce they have selected Megan Cooley of Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School to represent their unit at the 2022 Girl State Conference held at Drake University in Des Moines. Megan is a junior this year and is involved in Volleyball, ...

Tama Co Extension receives Excellence in COVID Recovery award

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach county offices in the north-central area announced award recipients for outstanding achievements in 2021. Cheryl Bruene, Jenny Hulme, and Sara Sorenson received the Excellence in COVID Recovery award for developing and engaging partnerships that ...

Ziegler Ag Equipment to Open New Store near Grundy Center

Ziegler is expanding its business in Iowa with a new store serving both the agricultural and construction markets. The company has purchased the existing building at 17775 Market Avenue, Holland, Iowa, and plans to open it for business by the summer of 2022. The new store will carry a full ...

G-R choristers attend honor choir festival

Gladbrook-Reinbeck was well represented last week among the ranks of eastern Iowa’s top high school choral singers at the Meistersinger Honor Choir Festival. G-R choir members attending the honor festival included Brandon Strohbehn, Wesley Latchman, Vanessa Arvizu-Ersland and Nattalee ...

Elementary STEM Nights coming to Gladbrook and Reinbeck

The classroom is coming alive and to a venue near you this winter within the Gladbrook-Reinbeck community. G-R Elementary staff will be holding a series of STEM Nights for elementary students and families in late winter as a way to provide fun, hands-on learning opportunities outside of ...

G-R Elementary teacher earns national honor

IXL, the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced its eighth annual Elite 100 list, which recognizes remarkable teachers who devoted the previous year to serving students and prioritizing personalized learning. IXL selected the list of honorees from ...

Gov. Reynolds visits Tama County child care center

The children of Little Knights Learning Center (LKLC) in Dysart ended their afternoon naptime a bit early last Thursday, Jan. 20 in preparation for an important visitor to their rural child care center – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Gov. Reynolds (R-Iowa) made the trek to Tama County from Des ...

Soil Fertility Workshop to be held in Grundy Center

Farmers wishing to maximize the profits from their fertilizer dollars will want to attend one of 15 in-person workshops or a virtual workshop hosted by Iowa State University. The workshop series, called Soil Testing Interpretations and Recommendations: Maximizing Return on Investment, will be ...