By John SpeerCentral Iowa Pressjspeer@tamatoledonews.comHalloween day, Oct. 31, 1973, was typical of many in late fall in Iowa- cold, overcast and threatening rain. It included the discovery of the body of Helen Mae Bown, 61, of Marshalltown, on the bank of the Iowa River northwest of Montour ...
Dear Editor:To 4-B Kids:I wasn't sure how to reach all of you - hopefully some of you will see the Northern Sun and the Courier and will let others know to read about This-and-That.I hope you're having a wonderful summer think about you all the time. Summer has been crazy-busy for me but very ...
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We did it! Just finished another very successful Corn Carnival 93 years and they said Corn Carnival was going to die several years ago! Terri Luehring and the Corn Carnival committee, with a lot of help from all the locals, proved them wrong again. We are already planning for the 2016 Corn ...
Dear Editor,I read a recent Letter to the Editor penned by our GR educator, Mr. Bruce Bailey. His letter was dated on May 24th and was about the May 6th Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board meeting. Unfortunately, I have only found Mr. Bailey's Letter to the Editor in the Reinbeck Courier.I too ...
Dear Editor, I read a recent Letter to the Editor penned by our GR educator, Mr. Bruce Bailey. His letter was dated on May 24th and was about the May 6th Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board meeting. Unfortunately, I have only found Mr. Bailey's Letter to the Editor in the Reinbeck Courier. I too ...
Letter to the Editor: Iowa's agriculture industry is critical to the economy of our state. It employs one in five Iowans, it allows Iowa to export its goods worldwide, and agriculture is central to our state's culture and heritage. Iowa has been able to lead the nation in corn, soybean, pork, ...
Thursday, June 4, 2015, current staff, former staff, and alumni gathered at the Gladbrook campus for a flag lowering service, as had been done for 134 years. "According to my 4th grade math,if there were 180 days in each school year and the flag has waved each school day for 134 years, that ...
REINBECK - Eldora-New Providence Superintendent Jay Mathis will soon have an additional office to report to ... in Reinbeck. Earlier this year, both the Gladbrook-Reinbeck and Eldora-New Providence school boards approved a sharing agreement, wherein Mathis will serve as both districts’ ...
On June 11, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board held a special meeting regarding lights at the football field. Joe Kapaun, from Kapaun Consulting Engineers, presented the board with information for new poles, installation, and details of the electrical plans. There was discussion of possibly ...