September 2019

GC/G-R boys upset Regina during perfect first week

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

The newly combined Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck soccer team got its season off to a roaring start last week with three straight victories, including an upset of second-ranked Iowa City Regina in Reinbeck on Friday night.
           

Conrad council approves mural funding request

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

The city of Conrad will contribute $5,000 in Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) funds to the mural project on the former Friday’s Auto Service building at the intersection of Center and Main Street after the city council approved a request during its monthly meeting on Thursday.
 
Betty Haker of the mural committee came before the council to speak on why she and her husband first moved to Conrad as well as the strong sense of community pride.
           

Tuesday Music Club set to present "Reel Music"

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

It’s become one of the longest running traditions around: every year since 1920, a group of women living within the BCLUW school district spend months preparing for a one-night only show in the spring. This year, the Tuesday Music Club will present “Reel Music,” a tribute to songs that have been made popular in movies, on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at the BCLUW High School Auditorium in Conrad.
 

Walters follows her dream with opening of "The Groom Room"

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

The idea for Conrad’s newest Main Street business, The Groom Room and Barkery, is one that has both been lingering in the back of owner/operator Dale Walters’s mind for years and at the same time, has come together extremely quickly. Though she had wanted to work with dogs and always considered it her passion, it wasn’t until about a month ago that everything finally clicked for Walters.
 

Jennifer Hoodjer

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

Jennifer Hoodjer, 47, passed away at her home in Camdenton, Missouri, after a courageous battle with ALS. Visitation was held March 24 at Hamilton's Southtown Funeral Home in Des Moines. Funeral services were held March 25 at Rising Sun Church of CHrist in Pleasant Hill.

Minutemen gear up for second season

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

The Tri-County Minutemen—a high school American Legion team consisting of players from the South Hardin, Grundy Center and BCLUW districts—are ready for another season of baseball coming off of a 4-5-1 mark in their inaugural campaign.
 

EDF representatives make pitch to supervisors

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

Most of Monday morning’s regular meeting of the Grundy County Board of Supervisors consisted of a presentation from EDF Renewable Energy, Inc. on the proposed Ivester Wind Farm as the board prepares to vote on whether to allow its construction in the near future.
 

Comet boys to field young track team in 2016

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

There’s a saying that BCLUW boys track and field coach Les Penick has become known for: tradition never graduates. Though the longest tenured coach in the NICL will enter this season with some uncertainty and without a host of returning experience, he’s confident that his group can still become something special as the year goes on.
 
“A lot of question marks,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “Just to start the season (at Tuesday’s Wartburg Co-Ed Meet), we’re going to have six different guys running 800’s and six different guys running 400’s.”
 

Conrad council approves budget, mulls funding for mural project

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:40am

At its regular meeting on Thursday evening, the Conrad city council approved its budget as presented for fiscal year 2017 and discussed a request from the Chamber-Main Street Mural Committee for city funding of the proposed project.
 

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