The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team (MIYBT) will be kicking off its 2016-17 meeting series on Sunday, September 11 @ 6:30 p.m. in the Marshall County Extension Office meeting room. Originally founded in 2002 as the Tama County Youth Beef Team, the team expanded last year to include Central Iowa Youth ...
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 ...
2016 Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Held at Iowa State FairIowa 4-H volunteers honored by Iowa 4-H Foundation & Iowa 4-H ProgramAMES, Iowa - Because of their countless hours given to the Iowa 4-H program, 125 Iowa 4-H volunteers from 95 counties were welcomed into the Iowa 4-H ...
By David Hill, Gladbrook-Reinbeck Superintendent I am pleased to introduce myself as the new superintendent of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District. I want to thank the school board for their confidence in me, and the staff and community for their warm welcome. In my short time ...
It’s time for all 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders to get ready for this year’s Kid’s Club. The theme for this year will be “Stories of Jesus” and we will be starting September 21st at Gladbrook Methodist Church. We will ending our September meeting with a family picnic at 6:00 p.m. We ...
Tama County Supervisors met with County Engineer Monday morning for his weekly report. Brehm says the work scheduled for last week on Highway E49 between Tama and Montour went well, and E49 is now open for traffic. The Bridge crew will be working on a bridge southwest of Otter Creek Park ...
AMES, IOWA The winner of the Iowa State Fair's "Super Bull Contest" is a Black Angus bull named "Desperado." Desperado is owned by John and Emily Putney and family of Gladbrook.Desperado weighed in at 2,972 pounds to take home the 'Super Bull' title for the 2016 fair. His competition weighed ...
Dear Editor and G-R Fans,I'm back at it again ~ begging for your old keys. MANY years ago I was collecting keys to award to students. (Those former students now have students of their own in school :-) I'm collecting keys again. Please bring me your old keys as you clean out junk drawers. I'm ...
Dear Editor.As a continuation of the information provided in my letter to the editor early June, I said I would further share with the GR school district's constituents regarding the prior often used concept of conferring with past board leadership and school board members on critical and/or ...
The Gladbrook City Council held their regular monthly meeting on August 8, 2016 at 7:00 PM. Following the approval of the consent agenda, there was discussion on removal and treatment of berm trees. Res. 17-12 was approved to amend 16-69 transferring local option sales tax revenue. Mike Bearden ...