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Northey Comments On Iowa Crops And Weather Report

DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October. "Iowa's corn and soybean harvest is moving forward, but ...

Looking Back

10 YEARS AGOOCT. 2006Jason Appel, 31, Grundy Center, was arrested after he struck and killed Barbara Dellit, 57, in a hit and run incident on Oct. 16 in Grundy Center.A shooting incident is being investigated when Joshua Wohlman,19, a sophomore at Wm. Penn University of Oskaloosa, died at a ...

The beginning of fall

Every year is different. Would you agree that we can make that statement given the weather we've experienced? The stream flooding that we generally experience in June was absent but flooding in fall? That doesn't happen often thankfully.I don't think that I can ever remember a year where I ...

Library News

The library has recently undergone two projects. We have a new roof, and handicapped accessible power doors. The door project was helped to be made possible with a grant from LSB Foundation, and donations from Moeller and Walter, Caseys General Stores, Tom and Vicki Bicket, and Jerry and Sue ...

Looking Back

10 YEARS AGOOCT. 12, 2006October is AIDS awareness month.Julie Versluis completes School of Trust & Financial Services courses.Anna M. Burdick, 87, Reinbeck, died Oct. 5 at her home.Mr. & Mrs. Claus Wrage celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Oct. 9 in Hemet, Calif.Mr. ...

Training, trainings, trainings

A necessary part of work today involves trainings. Workplace safety trainings, certifications, re-certifications, and continuing education. A lot has changed in these requirements during my thirty-six years with Grundy County Conservation. But a lot has changed in this world during that time, ...

Library News

The Reinbeck Library is sponsoring a program, World War II Women of the Heartland at Westview Estates on Friday, October 14 at 1:00. This is a talk by Iowa author Gail Kittlesen. She wrote In Times Like These, a fiction book set in Cedar Falls during the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ...

Northey Comments On Iowa Crops And Weather Report

DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October. "After a slow start due to the wet weather, harvest is now ...

Q/A: Mental Health Reform With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Q: Why are you co-sponsoring a bill to reform delivery of mental health services? A: Although we are making important strides in this country to end a stigma tied to mental illness, there is broad agreement that we still have work to do to close the gap between mental health illness and ...