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GMG schools eyeing early March for full return to classrooms

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A month after a water pipe break caused major damage at the GMG Secondary school in Garwin, progress has remained steady toward a target of March 6 for all junior high and senior high students to return to 100 percent in-person learning. On Jan. 7 Secondary Principal Jaimie Gargas and teacher ...

Community hospital supplies available

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The medical equipment that has been housed in the old ambulance building in Gladbrook has been moved to the Gladbrook Chapel of the Anderson Funeral Home. This equipment has been donated to the ambulance service and the Gladbrook Legion and Auxiliary organizations. The supplies include ...

Rebels qualify two groups to state speech

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After weeks and months of choosing events and rehearsing parts, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Large Group Speech team got the opportunity to leave it all on the stage last weekend. The Rebels traveled to Waterloo West High School for the annual District Large Group Speech Contest on Saturday, Jan. ...

Gladbrook-Reinbeck seeks community input through facilities survey

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...