September 2019

The musicians of BCLUW showed off their unique talents during the annual Coffee Concert at the high school in Conrad on Friday night, and a sampling of the event can be found below. To purchase prints of the photos, click this link. 

 
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According to a viral clickbait listicle somewhere on the Internet, Iowa is the best state in the United States of America*. The best at what, exactly? We aren’t sure, but we’ll take any compliments we can get. With all of the changes we’re dead set on implementing, however, is there any chance we’ll stay at the top for long?
 

For the better part of the last two years, BCLUW Middle School science teacher Evan Ascherl has been giving orders to students. For the next few months, however, he’ll get used to taking them upon returning to his other job as a mechanic in the Air National Guard and deploying in Afghanistan.
           
“Teaching has helped me out military wise. Things aren’t always going to go your way,” he said. “Sometimes you’ve got to say you know what, today’s just not the day. We’ll come back tomorrow and get it that way, and you can’t take yourself so seriously.”
           

It’s been said that the personal is political, and the line between the two became increasingly blurry during one of Republican State Representative Pat Grassley’s listening posts at the Dike City Hall on Friday morning.
           
Jane Close, a fellow New Hartford resident who lives near Mr. Grassley and his family, castigated the representative in an empty room amidst snowy roads and frigid temperatures, accusing him of attempting to “avoid” the public with the scheduling of his meetings.