September 2019

Cara Doak is well aware of the preconceived notions that outsiders may hold about competitive dance, but to the six girls that she coaches, the 120-second routine they get to present once a year is a monumental occasion.
           
“It’s not like a regular team where if one girl is struggling, we’re going to put her on the bench, and you’re going to take over,” Doak said. “You practice for 200 hours for a two-minute performance that’s based on subjective judging.”
           

Mark Mann from the Public Professional and Maintenance Employees Local 2003 asked the Grundy County Board of Supervisors for a four percent across the board raise on behalf of the secondary roads department during Monday morning’s regular meeting.
           
“We’re going to bargain in good faith, but we—at the end of this process—are committed to maintaining a full agreement allowable by law,” Mann said. “It’s pretty straightforward.”
           

PARKERSBURG – Nolan Freeman won't see the fruits of his labor first-hand.

But it gives the Grundy Center senior pride to know that he has the Spartan wrestling program on the brink of a rebirth.

As part of Aplington-Parkersburg/Grundy Center wrestling for the last two seasons, Freeman has been hard at work recruiting Spartans to come up to Parkersburg and prove that Grundy Center has the numbers to restart a solo wrestling program.

There are a few lessons to be gleaned from the recent wave of allegations, confessions and apologies that keep pouring out by the day: one is that sexual harassment doesn’t have a political affiliation, a socioeconomic status, a race or a profession. It’s a problem across the spectrum that no one really seems equipped to speak tactfully about or do anything about, for that matter. Another is that anyone looking to celebrities and politicians for moral guidance would be better served visiting a shrink, a preacher, a used car salesman or some mystical hybrid of the three.