September 2019

For Conrad City Clerk and Administrator Denise Hoy, the community of Conrad, Montana—a small town of about 2,500 residents nestled in the northwest part of the state and located east of Glacier National Park—is quite familiar: in her 20 years on the job, she has received bills, payments and all sorts of mail that were meant for the “other” Conrad. When Hoy and her husband Barry recently took a vacation in Big Sky Country, they stopped in Conrad, visited city hall and finally explored their sister city for the first time.
           

During the Grundy County Fair last week, the county’s Iowa State University Extension Office marked its 100-year anniversary. County 4-H and Youth Coordinator Andrea Traeger caught up with The Grundy Register on Tuesday to discuss the history of the extension office, its mission and its future.
           

GRUNDY CENTER – Last week, the school was forced to clean up a mess after it was discovered that the “I Am Syria” mural painted onto the side of the utility shed at the east parking lot had been vandalized.
The unknown vandal used a can of red spray paint to write “Americans No Refugees” across the mural.
The mural, which was created by Todd Zinkula’s seventh and eighth grade social studies students, was not about refugees and was in no way political, Zinkula said, but simply about basic human rights.