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Christmas is coming, and we are doing a Christmas story time at the library on Tuesday, December 19 at 10:00. Cherie Eckhoff will do the program, and there may be a special Christmas visitor.Also, come to the library this month and see the Christmas village in our display case. This is from the ...

Looking Back

10 YEARS AGODEC. 13, 2007Buena Vista student, Todd Wical, takes internship traveling 50,000 miles to three continents in one summer to South Africa and Alaska.Brittany Bicket & Ryan Jansen will be married on Jan. 5 at the Reinbeck United Methodist Church.Kenneth Rhoads, 72, Grundy ...

Proud moment

Many of you can recall how important I feel it is to pass down our outdoor activities to our next generation. Research has shown through the sales of hunting licenses that the number of hunters is in decline. This is a reflection of what we are not doing to get our youth involved. Many hunters ...

Library News

If you would like to take part in the library logo design contest, you have until Dec. 15 to submit an entry. We would also like people to share memories of coming to the library over the years. You may put them on our facebook page, email to reinlibr@reinbeck.net, or send by regular mail to ...

Looking Back

10 YEARS AGODEC. 6, 2007Ribbon cutting ceremony held at LSB recently renovated building next door to the main office.Alvin P. Storey, 93, Hudson, died at Manor Care in Waterloo on Nov. 26.Eunice Ladehoff, 92, Gladbrook, died Nov. 29 at Westbrook Acres Care Center.20 YEARS AGODEC. 4, 1997G-R ...

A change of plans – the ending

He was headed to me. But something was wrong..That was the dramatic cliffhanger ending to last week's column. I can only imagine what anticipation has filled many minds over the past week! I like to imagine that anyway. Please join me for "the rest of the story":There was very little time to ...

Library News

New books at the library include:Nonfiction: Promise Me Dad by Joseph Biden.Fiction: Every Breath You Take by Mary Higgins Clark, Twice the Plum and Hardcore Twenty-four both by Janet Evanovich, Peace in the Valley by Ruth Logan Herne, The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse In This Moment by ...

Looking Back

10 YEARS AGONOV. 29, 2007Roger Bern, 66, Lynchberg, Va. died Nov. 20.Maureen O'Connor, 64, Davenport, died Nov. 10.Albert Weeks, 94, died Nov. 20 at Allen Hospital.Cedar Valley Hospice to hold "Tree of Love" ceremony on Dec. 9.20 YEARS AGONOV. 27, 1997Census Bureau updates estimates of area ...

A change of plans

Well, over the past few weeks you have heard only squirrel and bird reports from the treestand. I really do hunt deer from those platforms hanging high in the trees. I don't go out and sit in the cold and the dark for my health. Thirty years ago, I would have been in my favorite stand on ...

Looking Back

10 YEARS AGONOV. 22, 2017Reinbeck Food Bank receives a check for $573.75 from proceeds from LSB Soup Supper.Edna Dufel will be honored with a card shower on her 90th birthday.Rev. Terry & Robyn Plocher celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on Nov. 18.Mr. & Mrs. Justin Boege ...