September 2019

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, 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.

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.
 

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.”