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Reinbeck News

Wesley Latchman named to Coe College’s Fall 2025 Dean’s List

CEDAR RAPIDS – Coe College is recognizing its highest performing students as members of the Dean's List, including Wesley Latchman of Reinbeck who is currently among this elite group. Latchman has been named to the prestigious Fall 2025 Dean's List at Coe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Past members ...

Reinbeck Public Library embarks on ambitious new chapter(s)

REINBECK – Lenah Oltman is ready to move the Reinbeck Public Library (RPL) forward and she has the plans to make it happen – all she needs now is the community’s continued support. “The library’s addition was built 34 years ago, and no updates have been done since then. We’ve ...

Reinbeck Lions Club, American Legion jointly fund new flag project

REINBECK – During the Reinbeck Lions Club meeting held on Monday, Nov. 17, Gary Poppens of the Reinbeck American Legion Post 242 gave a presentation on a new flag project set to be installed at the Reinbeck Cemetery at the site of "The Unknown Soldier.” The project will include six lighted ...

It all adds up

REINBECK – Following a recount, the results are in and margins remain the same: Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District’s $17.3 million bond referendum passed on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, by 17 votes. “Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District has received the completed recount ...

There’s no place like … the Gladbrook-Reinbeck fall musical!

REINBECK – There was most certainly no place like the Gladbrook-Reinbeck JH/HS Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 15, and Sunday, Nov. 16, as the high school drama department staged an absolutely stellar production of “The Wizard of Oz.” From lead Jayla Hemann’s impeccable depiction of ...

‘Santa, light that tree!’

REINBECK – Santa Claus made a phenomenal entrance last Friday night (Nov. 14) in downtown Reinbeck for Miracle on Main’s kickoff event by way of the annual celebration’s brand new tree lighting ceremony in Bill Davis Park. Just ahead of 6:30 p.m., the park’s crowd – mostly young ...

‘Let’s make kindness our down payment’

LINCOLN – The Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District commemorated Veterans Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11, with a visit to the Lincoln AMVETS Post #10 Hall, marking the first time the school district has ever held a Veterans Day program in Lincoln in recent memory. G-R secondary students, ...

Local 2025 city-school election results

With no candidates filing for any of the open Reinbeck City Council seats, Gladbrook’s mayor race, seats on both the Gladbrook and Garwin city councils, and one director district apiece on both the Gladbrook-Reinbeck and GMG school boards, the write-in vote will prove greatly important in ...

Sweet 16 (votes)

REINBECK – On its third try in four years, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District has finally passed a school bond referendum. A mere 16 votes coupled with an unprecedented turnout in Grundy County for a school election pushed the district’s $17.3 million general obligation ...