September 2019

To the surprise of few, Republican State Representative Pat Grassley of New Hartford officially announced that he would seek his seventh term in the house this fall and spoke with local reporters about the decision on Monday afternoon.
           
“I think that I’m in a pretty good position being chair of the appropriations committee. At the end of the day, it comes down to the fact that I have a lot of opportunities here,” he said. “I feel like it’s what I’m best suited for, and that’s why I made the decision to run again.”
           

CONRAD – Friday night felt familiar for the BCLUW boys basketball team.
 
Grundy Center appeared poised for another second-half rally, like the one that pushed the Spartans to a win in Grundy Center on Dec. 8.
 
Still in search of an NICL West conference win and facing a 37-30 halftime deficit to the Spartans, BCLUW head coach Luke Higgins laid it out for the Comets.
 
"I told them we can either be the team that we have been, or we can turn it around in the second half and play with intensity like we know how to play," Higgins said.
 

The Felix Grundy Days committee has booked one of the most popular cover bands in Iowa for this year’s festival, and according to chairwoman Mindy Greany, the Cedar Falls-based Pork Tornadoes are indicative of a larger push to attract more patrons to the downtown area in early July.
           
“In order for us to keep having great festivals, we have to keep bringing in bigger, better bands for Saturday night,” she said. “If we keep improving our Saturday night entertainment, we can keep making Felix better each year.”