September 2019

Local family donates bench to courthouse

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GRUNDY CENTER – Every year, the Meyers family gets together in rural Grundy Center for their Meyers Family Reunion, and at last year’s meet up, the group decided they wanted to something special with the extra funds in their treasury.
After some talk, they decided to donate a bench for the Grundy County Courthouse in memory of Samuel and Susanna Meyers, the first of the Meyers who settled in the area in 1877.

Earl Biersner

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Earl Biersner, 83, of Cedar Falls passed away on April 28 at Unity Point Allen Hospital. Funeral services were held May 2 at Dike United Methodist Church and visitation was May 1 at Richardson Funeral Home in Cedar Falls. 

Wilma Freese

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Wilma Freese, 87, of Dike passed away Tuesday, April 26 at her home. Funeral services were held April 29 at Richardson Funeral Service, Cedar Falls. Visitation was held the hour prior. 

Grundy Register, May 5, 2016

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Three local schools finish in top half of crowded field at Hudson Relays

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The Dike-New Hartford, Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck and BCLUW girls’ track teams finished sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively, at the Hudson Relays last Monday night.
 
The 20-team field featured plenty of talent from around the area, and the local schools there recorded just three first place finishes: BCLUW’s Samantha Ubben in the 800 (2:30.12), AGWSR’s Bethany Lippert in the high jump (4’10”) and the D-NH 4x400 team (4:11.53).
           

GC/G-R boys experience one stroke win, loss in same week

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The Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck boys had quite an interesting week as they fell to Dike-New Hartford by a single stroke on Thursday before bouncing back to edge out Roland-Story for the team title at the Spartan Invitational on Saturday.
           

Supervisors approve urban renewal plan for annex building

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After a brief public hearing with no comments, the Grundy County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the urban renewal plan for the proposed annex building at Monday morning’s regular meeting.
 The plan was formally adopted after a motion from Supervisor Jim Ross passed by a 4-0 vote (chairwoman Barb Smith was absent). 
Read more in this week's Grundy Register. 

Changes to wind energy ordinance could be on horizon

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Seven years ago, a consortium of Grundy County officials drew up a zoning ordinance that paved the way for two large scale commercial wind farms—one near Wellsburg, which has been in operation since 2014, and one yet to be constructed project on the other side of Highway 175 in Melrose and Felix townships that was approved at the April 11 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. In both cases, the developers faced strong public opposition, and the supervisors overruled earlier decisions from the county’s planning and zoning commission to reject the applications.

Conrad council awards fire station contract to Brycon

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During a brief special meeting last Tuesday night, the Conrad city council unanimously voted to award the contract for the construction of a new fire station to Brycon, LLC, of Marshalltown.

April 28, 2016

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