September 2019

Clarke University is starting a football program from square one.
 
Whatever the future may bring for the Pride's football program, set to begin a full schedule in 2019, Keegan Rhinehart is excited to lay the foundation for Clarke football.
 
The BCLUW first-team all-district lineman made his commitment to Clarke University official recently, where he plans on redshirting as a freshman as Clarke is expected to play a limited scrimmage schedule before becoming fully instituted as an NAIA football program in two years.
 

GRUNDY CENTER – Last week, Main Street Iowa announced the selection of one local building owner, Dave Loftus, to receive a $75,000 Challenge Grant to help improve and restore the former True Value building he owns, and to renovate the upper floor apartments.
Loftus was one of just 14 applicants in the state to be awarded the grant dollars, and he is the first Challenge Grant winner from Grundy Center.
Main Street Grundy Center Board President Paul Eberline says MSGC is thrilled to have someone from the community selected for the grant dollars.

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.

It’s common knowledge that launching a business isn’t easy, but Blaine Fisher and his family could never have guessed that it would be this hard.
           
“It was nothing like I expected. I honestly didn’t know what to expect,” he said.
           
After well over a year of meetings, grant applications and fundraising efforts, Blaine and his mother Kandy, the operators of the yet-to-be-opened “Blaine’s on Main,” have officially found a home for their restaurant at 125 North Main Street in Conrad, and they’re renting it in good faith until July of 2018.