Dear Editor,We feel the dissolution committee and school board has allowed us to retain our fine schools and a positive learning environment.Our students graduate with the abilities to go forward and work toward goals they hope to accomplish.The Rebels and fine arts programs will be able to ...
Greetings, Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels! As the new superintendent of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District, I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the community. While most of my newspaper columns and blog posts will focus on educational topics and school issues, I ...
Tama County Supervisors Kendall Jordan, Dan Anderson and Larry Vest met Tuesday morning, September 6, with Tama County Sheriff Dennis Kucera and approved law enforcement agreement contracts with several Tama County Towns. The contracts with the city of Traer, Dysart and Gladbrook is for ...
Before Judge Christopher L. Burns in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Samantar Abdirizak, 28, Toledo. previously entered a plea of guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily injury or mental illness and received a deferred judgment. He was placed on unsupervised probation and assessed a ...
The University of Northern Iowa Department of Athletics will induct six individuals and the 1982 Panther softball team into its 2016 Athletics Hall of Fame Class.This year's Hall of Fame inductees include Ben Jacobson, Ray Pedersen, Rich Powers, Kim (Kester) Tierney and the 1982 national ...
Letter to the Editor, clarification.After my last letter to the editor a couple weeks ago, Suzie Peterson requested that I clarify that I did not say she called the residents of Gladbrook, vindictive SOBs. I did not say that nor did I mean to imply that. It has been other people using those ...
REINBECK - The seven members of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck school board voted unanimously to reject a dissolution plan for the district because of concerns with the original petition “(The board) found there is sufficient evidence which calls into question the validity of the signatures on the ...
Steve Willer has retired from the Gladbrook-Lincoln Ambulance Service. He started driving for the service in 1989. Steve took countless number of shifts in his 27 years of service. The crew would like to thank, Steve, for his dedication to helping others. He is pictured with his retirement plaque.
The HANDS prayer shawl ministry will be celebrating five years this fall and are having a celebration on September 20 from 1-4 at serendipity by deb! Whether you come to our weekly sessions, or have helped us in the past with shawls, making cards or donations we want to include everyone so ...
County Engineer Lyle Brehm reported to the Tama County Board of Supervisors, Larry Vest, Kendall Jordan and Dan Anderson, on the latest information on the Chambers Bridge. The Chambers bridge has been closed for some time and has been offered for sale with no takers. Brehm reported a few ...