September 2019

I won’t lie and proclaim myself the world’s most enthusiastic Linkin Park diehard, but for people my age, it’s hard to overstate how ubiquitous the band was during the time period when most of us were first becoming music fans. The nine-note piano introduction to “In the End” will be etched in our brains for eternity, along with the “Numb/Encore” Jay-Z remix and the theme songs that they wrote for the first two “Transformers” movies before the series went completely off the rails.
           

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.
 

TRAER – During a postseason run where defense was king, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck baseball team met its match in a Class 1A district final last Saturday night.
   Hudson was just as sharp defensively and had the right mixture of big hits and sound fundamentals to take advantage of a brief lapse in the Rebels' otherwise-sterling defense, pouncing on the opening in a 3-2 victory for the Pirates and ending G-R's season at 15-9.