September 2019

Grundy Center moving forward with Main Street process

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:39am

    GRUNDY CENTER — A group of Grundy Center leaders is moving forward with the process of the community applying to be part of the Main Street Iowa Program.
    John Schuller, who is co-chairing the application committee along with Erika Allen, said the desire to do something like Main Street Iowa goes back a full year to when he met with then-Mayor Rex Van Wert about some concerns about the direction that the community’s Business Innovation Grant (BIG) Program was going.

First LEGO League students explore future of learning

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    What is the future of learning? That is what more than 35 Grundy Center fifth- through eighth-grade students aim to find out with their challenge in the 2014 First Lego League.
    Thirty-eight students on four teams, three sponsored by the school and one by the Grundy Family YMCA, will embark on their challenge Dec. 13 at Marshalltown Community College.
    Secondary TAG instructor Rob Gingery said First Lego League (FLL) allows students to think in ways that almost no other program at the school does.

Local gridders earn INA All-State honors

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DES MOINES — All four local football teams are represented this week as the Iowa Newspaper Association announces its 2014 all-state football team.
Class A runner-up Gladbrook-Reinbeck leads the area with seven selections, including five on the first team, while AGWSR has six representatives, Dike-New Hartford three and Grundy Center one.

Koop, Weber share NICL East Player of the Year citation

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    DIKE – Five Dike-New Hartford players earned all-conference honors last week as the North Iowa Cedar League East Division announced its all-conference team.
    The Wolverines, winners of four straight Class 2A state championships, saw two members of its outstanding senior class share Player of the Year honors. Briana Weber and Rachel Koop, both of whom have signed letters of intent to play volleyball at UNI, led D-NH to its fourth straight division title this year.

Sents repeats as NICL West Player of Year

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    Grundy Center won its sixth straight North Iowa Cedar League title this year. During that span the Spartans have crowned league Players of the Year five times, each time a different player … until this year.
    Riley Sents became the first Spartan to repeat as Player of the Year in at least five years earlier this month, as she was named to the honor on the all-conference team announced by league coaches.

Rebels fall in state title game

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:39am

    CEDAR FALLS —  Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s quest for its first-ever state football championship will have to wait for another year.
    Thursday, top-ranked Logan-Magnolia scored with less than one minute remaining to edge the Rebels 28-24 in the Class A championship game at the UNI-Dome’s Stan Sheriff Field in Cedar Falls. The back-and-forth game saw the lead change hands four times and each team battle back from a pair of deficits.

ISEA analysis shows school district must make changes

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:39am

    GRUNDY CENTER — An Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) report shows the Grundy Center Community School District must make chances, though the changes may not need to come as quickly as initially thought.
    The document, which was presented to school district staff and administration during a closed meeting last week and sent to the Grundy Register at the request of ISEA members, stated that the district’s declining unspent balance must be addressed, but that it does not need to be completed in one year.
 

Supervisors unanimously approve building site

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:39am

    GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy County Board of Supervisors Monday selected a location on H Avenue as the site for its proposed new annex building.
    Supervisors were in unanimous agreement to build a one-story building on a lot currently owned by Bob Cox. They agreed to purchase the property from Cox for $52,000. The purchase agreement was contingent upon the City of Grundy Center changing zoning on the property from R1 Residential to either C1 or C2 Commercial.

Mary Jane Hippen

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Mary Jane Hippen, 85, of Wellsburg, passed away November 11, 2014 at the Grundy Care Center in Grundy Center while under the care of Cedar Valley Hospice. A funeral service was held on November 15 at the United Reformed Church,Wellsburg. Visitation was on November 14 at the Doyen-Abels Funeral Home in Wellsburg and one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment followed the funeral service at the Shiloh Cemetery in Wellsburg. Memorials may be directed to the United Reformed Church or to Cedar Valley Hospice.

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