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Looking Back

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30 Years Ago May 19, 1989 Commencement for the 70 Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School graduates will be Sunday, May 21, beginning at 2 p.m. in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School gymnasium. Sunday, May 21, at 4:00 p.m. at the GMG High School, Seniors will participate in Commencement Exercises at ...

Q&A: Small Business Week with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

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Q: Why celebrate Small Business Week? A: The locomotive for the U.S. economy – small businesses – continues to move full steam ahead during the first two years of the Trump administration. The roaring U.S. economy opened the first quarter of the year with 3.2 percent growth, signaling ...

Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Bigfoot, small foot

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The legend of Bigfoot lives on in American folklore, and although I don’t know for sure if the big and hairy creature actually exists in the wild, I do believe in big foot, or at least big feet. I live with a bunch of them. (Big and hairy big-footed creatures, that is.) My husband and sons ...

Looking Back

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30 Years Ago May 12, 1989 Mrs. Gretchen Fulster, Gladbrook, will celebrate her 90th birthday. Daniel J. Kearney, 51, Tama, was killed May 7, by a train in Tama. 40 Years Ago May 18, 1979 The last day of school is coming up next week for Garwin and Gladbrook students. Garwin Community ...

Tama Co. Court News

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Tama County District Court Before Chief Judge Patrick R. Grady in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Bradley Richard Grimes, 48, rural Tama, entered a written guilty plea to 2nd offense drunken driving. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail with all but seven days suspended and credited for ...