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Letters to the Editor

Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Registration Information

Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School parents will receive “mail-in” registration information via the US Postal Service around July 16, 2018. This packet will include information on how to register school-aged children. For the 2018-2019 School Year, parents may register online, by mail, or ...

Corn Carnival Royalty

Little Miss Corn Carnival Skyler Murty and Little Mr. Corn Carnival Braydon Deeds were crowned on Thursday, June 28, 2018, before the start of the Kiddies Parade.

Tama County Fair Queen Candidates

2017 Tama County Fair Queen, Sadie Cahalan, will be the hostess for the upcoming crowning of the Tama County Fair Queen for 2018 on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 in the show ring on the Tama County Fair Grounds in Gladbrook at approximately 7:00 p.m. This year, 2 contestants, Brooklyn Henderson and ...

Diane Sebbert 50th anniversary of working

Diane Neuhalfen Sebbert began working for Lincoln Savings Bank in Lincoln, IA on June 11, 1968. And 50 years later Diane is still working as teller for Lincoln Savings Bank. The biggest change is that mornings are spent in Lincoln and afternoons are spent at the Garwin branch.Diane graduated ...

Supervisors approve Otter Creek transfers , 2019 budget amount

As customary, the Tama County Board of Supervisors approved a fiscal-year-end transfer of funds including amounts for the Tama County Conservation Board during their regular meeting on Monday, June 25. Upon the recommendation of Bob Etzel, executive director of the conservation board, a total ...

New and improved portable poster sign holder

Gladbrook Mayor, Keith Sash, shows off the city’s new and improved portable poster sign holder. The “rolling billboard” holds posters to announce events and fundraisers hosted by organizations within the community. The first portable billboard came to be as the Eagle Scout Project of ...

Eric Keller receives Horbach Award

Eric Keller, rural Gladbrook, is the 2018 recipient of the Lance J. Horbach Award presented by the Tama County Community Foundation. The honor was presented by Horbach at a Foundation meeting in Toledo on Wednesday night, June 20. In its 5th year, the award is made based upon an effort or ...

2018 Corn Carnival Grand Marshalls are Mark and Linda Goos

The Gladbrook Corn Carnival Corporation has named Mark and Linda Goos as the Grand Marshalls of the 2018 Grand Parade. The parade will take place on Friday, June 29 at 6:30 PM.Corn Carnival Corporation President Teri Luehring said, "They have always been great business people and supportive of ...

Tama County Extension celebrates 100 years By Margaret Thomsen

The year was 1918 and travel was mostly by horse and buggy, very few people enjoyed the luxury of electricity, refrigeration was the block of ice delivered by the ice man and the one room school house ruled education. And there were a group of Tama County citizens with foresight to decide that ...