September 2019

Jerry Gratopp doesn’t have much time for small talk. It’s a Wednesday evening, and the hungry masses are swarming his food truck in downtown Conrad.
           
“I need two piggyback nachos, a brisket sandwich and a pulled pork,” he says.
           

BCLUW students who walk out of school in an act of protest will be charged an unexcused absence and could be subject to further disciplinary measures after the board of education voted unanimously to add the language to the district handbook along with a host of other changes during Wednesday morning’s regular meeting.
           

A 51-year-old Evansdale man suffered fatal injuries in a one-vehicle accident on Highway 20 in Grundy County on Saturday evening.
           
According to a sheriff’s office press release, Scott VanGorder was westbound in a 2000 Saturn between The Mill and the Wellsburg turnoff about 2 ½ miles west of Highway 14 when the he drove off the right hand shoulder of the road, entered the ditch and struck a fence and a tree. VanGorder was pronounced dead at the scene. 
           

GRUNDY CENTER – What’s something that can really put Grundy Center on the map and set it apart from all of the other rural, small town communities across Iowa? What could bring more people to visit, and maybe even to live here?
 
In search of an answer to those questions, and inspired by the creativity of other small towns around the country, a small team of city officials and community members have landed on a possible answer: public art.