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Reinbeck News

Grundy County Conservation receives Corteva grant to ‘close the gap’

GRUNDY COUNTY – Grundy County Conservation and the Grundy County Heritage Foundation recently received a $5,000 grant from Corteva Agriscience toward 2025 efforts to close the Pioneer Trail gap. Plans for the trail include utilizing the Hwy 175 right of way to connect the existing trail at ...

Stars, Stripes, and Small Town Pride

REINBECK AND GARWIN - As Americans across the country celebrated Independence Day on Friday, July 4, Reinbeck hosted its annual 4th of July celebration while nearby Garwin hosted its own Freedom Days festival. The bulk of the activities in both communities were held in the towns’ ...

Spotlight on Shane

REINBECK – As operations manager for the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District, Shane Hawkins spends a good portion of his days ensuring the district’s facilities are maintained to the best of his ability – an increasingly tall task in light of the ever-deteriorating conditions ...

Reinbeck meth dealer sentenced to federal prison for second time

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Reinbeck man who obtained a significant quantity of methamphetamine from a source of supply that he had met in federal prison was sentenced June 23, 2025, to 20 years in federal prison. Austin David Hansen, 39, from Reinbeck received the prison term after a December 23, ...

Wambold honored with Lions International award

REINBECK – One of Reinbeck’s biggest fans, Reinbeck Lions Club President Dale Wambold was recently recognized with the fourth highest award from the International Association of Lions Clubs — the International President's Certificate of Appreciation for 2024-25. “In recognition of ...

G-R’s Janssen returns as Country School Day teacher July 22 in Dysart

DYSART – The Dysart Historical Society’s fifth annual Country School Day will be held on Tuesday, July 22, at the local historical center campus (612 Crisman St.) led by Shelby Janssen, currently a second-grade teacher at Gladbrook-Reinbeck. All students entering grades 4-6 this coming fall ...

Welcome to the Market

REINBECK – The Reinbeck Farmers Market opened for the season last Saturday morning to much fanfare with a robust turnout and roughly 10 vendors featuring everything from early season greens and pickled asparagus, to baked goods and fresh flower arrangements. There was even a trio of ...

Eckhoff, Olson honored by Reinbeck Masons as G-R Teachers of the Year

REINBECK – At the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District end of the year staff breakfast held on Friday, May 23, at Oak Leaf Country Club, Matt Wyatt, Worshipful Master at Coin Masonic Lodge in Reinbeck, presented the 2025 Gladbrook-Reinbeck Teacher of the Year Awards to a pair of ...