September 2019

   DIKE – Don Betts expects to see a lot of wide eyes at the line of scrimmage.
   The Dike-New Hartford football head coach will be sending in young Wolverines feet first into the varsity game as a small-but-motivated senior class looks to set the course for a third-consecutive trip to the state semifinals at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
   "These guys are going to have to understand what it takes to play in varsity quickly," Betts said. "That's the challenge, but we've met that challenge every year."

The Grundy County Board of Supervisors opened a pair of sealed bids from two local contractors for a bridge repair in a rural area of the county around 150th Street and J Avenue at Monday morning’s regular meeting.
           
PCI of Reinbeck submitted the low bid at $79,932.50, and Boulder Contracting of Grundy Center submitted a bid of $119,600 for the project, which County Engineer Gary Mauer had originally estimated at $124,400. The repairs will include replacing wood piling with steel, and the bridge has been closed since May 1.
           

A motorcyclist headed for the Sturgis Festival in South Dakota suffered a serious injury but was eventually released after losing control on Highway 20 at the Dike exit on Friday.
           
Yair Gavrielov, age 51, of Glenview, Illinois, was driving a 2013 Honda motorcycle westbound when he dropped off the inside shoulder, tried to bring himself back onto the road and lost control. Gavrielov was ejected from the vehicle after it rolled several times, and he was taken to Covenant Hospital in Waterloo.