Plan to join us at Westview on Friday, January 12 at 2:00 for a program on the history of our library, with Shana Stuart, director of the Carnegie Libraries in Iowa project. This program is free and open to the public. In case of bad weather, the program will be held the following week, Friday, ...

10 YEARS AGOJAN. 10, 2008Billie Matheny & Andrew Koester are planning a May wedding.Andrew Davis & Maggie Bean of Reinbeck are parents of a son born Jan. 5.Mary Burdick, 65, Reinbeck, died Jan. 6 at Grundy Co. Hospital.Helga Staker, 89, Reinbeck, died Dec. 29, 2007.20 YEARS ...

10 YEARS AGOJAN. 3, 2008Local landowners, Mike Rickert and Connie J. Ayer protect 1.5 miles of the Upper Iowa River frontage.Lucille Wrage, 90, Traer, died Dec. 21 at Sunrise Hill Care Center.Dorothy "Dot" Mumm, 93, Reinbeck, died Dec. 28 at Covenant Medical Center.20 YEARS AGONO LOOKING BACK ...

So, as you are reading this, another Christmas has come and gone. I hope that it was a wonderful time that included time with family and friends or wonderful thoughts of past Christmases with family and friends who have now passed. During this time, I found myself thinking about past Christmas ...

Story time resumes on the day after New Years, Tuesday January 2 at 10:00 a.m., with Dean Staack doing the program. Look on our facebook page for pictures of the Christmas story time.Then, on Friday, January 12 we will be having a program at Westview at 2:00 p.m. on the history of our library ...

10 YEARS AGODEC. 27, 2007Grundy County area host families are needed.Amy Schreck Naughton graduated from Iowa State University with a Masters of Education degree on Dec. 14.Allene Webrand will celebrate her 80th birthday on Jan. 6.Martha Vogt, 102, Reinbeck, died Dec. 16 at Parkview Manor.Mary ...

Being in the conservation field means you get lots of calls and questions on and off the job about wildlife, which is fair, considering wildlife is a major part of why a person gets into the conservation field. Some questions are extremely good and some. well.. not so much.We get lots of calls ...

The library is wanting to create a "classic movie" dvd collection and we are asking for your help. We have a list of The American Film Association's 100 Years100 Movies at the library. It is also posted on our facebook page. If you have any of these movies on dvd, and would be willing to donate ...

10 YEARS AGODEC. 20, 2007Merck & Co. has a voluntary recall of 2 Hib vaccines.A card shower is planned for Marlys Finzen 80th birthday.Amy Plueger & Mitch Davis were married July 28 in Story City.St. Gabriel is the chosen name for the new Catholic Church.20 YEARS AGODEC. 18, ...

Let me start out by saying that my memory doesn't seem to be what it used to be. I know that back in college all of those scientific names for birds, mammals, plants and insects went into my brain. And they lodged there just long enough to be written down on test papers satisfactorily. But ...