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Letters to the Editor

Rebels outrun Belle Plaine By Stephen Koenigsfeld

REINBECK - A hiccup in defense let Belle Plaine hang around a little longer than the Rebels would’ve liked, but at the end of the day, the outcome was all that mattered. The Class 1A fourth-ranked Rebels held on to advance to the District 6 finals with an 89-75 win against Belle Plaine on ...

GMG Speech Team headed to contest By Margaret Thomsen

The GMG Senior and 9th Individual Speech Teams are headed to contest this weekend with 36 entries. Improv entries include: Jevan Stokely, Chase Deam, Wes Steiner and Ethan Karsjen. Spontaneous speakers include: Hallie Claussen, Jevan Stokely and Christian Deam. Storytelling individuals are ...

GMG FFA Members Compete in Career Development Events

On February 17th the GMG FFA chapter competed in the sub district FFA career development event at Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls, Iowa. Garret Groth competed in the Job Interview contest. This contest requires a student to find and apply for an agriculture job, create a cover ...

New school nurse at GMG

Mrs. Sara Steinback became the new school nurse at GMG on January 16. She replaces Mrs. Tracy Anderson, who moved to Omaha, NB, as her husband was transferred.Mrs. Steinback works part time between the high school and elementary buildings. She is at school everyday 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Days at ...

Iowa FFA Hosts National FFA Experience State Week

ANKENY, Iowa-Students from FFA chapters across Iowa were involved in a once in a lifetime opportunity the week of January 9, 2017. The National FFA Experience State Week program selected the Iowa FFA Association as the 2017 host. This week-long program was an activity of the National FFA ...

Tama Co. Court News

Before Judge Chad Kepros in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Craig Allan Peters, 70, Gladbrook, entered a written guilty plea to 3rd degree criminal mischief. He was fined $625, assessed court costs totaling $130 and directed to pay a total of $3,941 restitution. Peters was also sentenced ...

Tama Co. Supervisors By Joyce Wiese

The Tama County Board of Supervisors met Monday morning with the main discussion on the recommendation from the Tama County Compensation Board given the end of December. After more discussion Supervisor Vest made a motion to reduce the recommendation for supervisors to a one and one-half (1 ...

Message From Our Mayor

This will be a short letter. Thankfully we have had a quiet month here in town. Hope everyone has gotten over Christmas by now and if you are lucky you have missed the flu bug. I know a lot of folks have not. Our ambulance squad is busy in the process of hiring a full time manager/EMT ...

GMG Speech Teams perform at District

GMG Large Group Speech Teams performed at Grinnell High School in the Iowa High School Speech Association District Contest on January 21. We took fourteen entries and six received a I Rating and will advance to State.Our only senior participant, Jasmine Deal, joined speech for the first time ...