    The Grundy Center City Council will have a similar look for the next two years as it currently has.
   According to unofficial results Tuesday night, incumbent City Council members Dave Stefl and Chad Hamann were re-elected to Council posts while current Council member, Brian Buhrow, was elected mayor.
   Stefl received 319 votes from 388 Grundy Center residents casting ballots (82 percent) while Hamann recieved 227 votes (59 percent). Challengers Mike Ammerman and Mark Lynch received 107 and 104 votes, respectively.

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Grundy Center students to present “Guys and Dolls”

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    GRUNDY CENTER — Grundy Center High School drama students presented their 2013 musical this weekend, former Broadway musical “Guys and Dolls” last week.
    Director Emily Boquet said both she and Assistant Director Amalie Guldenpfennig had been part of this show elsewhere and this year seemed like a good year to do it in Grundy Center.
   “I knew I had a good group of guys that could pull off the group of gamblers and I knew we had a good group of female dancers,” she said. “And we hadn’t done a classic for a few years.”

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Cougars fall in low-scoring playoff opener

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ACKLEY — Lawton-Bronson scored on a long pass play late in the first quarter and made that stand last Wednesday in a 7-0 victory over AGWSR in a Class A first-round playoff game.
The Eagles (7-3) played top-ranked West Lyon in a second-round playoff game Monday. AGWSR finished its best season in more than a decade with a 9-2 record.

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Stunning upset — Cougars top No. 8 Defenders in regional semi

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GILBERT – When it comes to the postseason, throw out the records.
AGWSR’s volleyball team did just that and showed no fear against No. 8 Grandview Park Baptist School Friday in a Class 1A, Region 4 semifinal to upset the Defenders in five sets.
The Cougars showed no quit and were in excellent position all night in the 26-24, 23-25, 25-20, 15-25, 16-14 victory.
When the final kill attempt by Grandview Park fell out of bounds untouched, it set off a celebration that was deserving of the moment.

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Spartans earn fourth straight regional final berth

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GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy Center High School volleyball team closed to within one victory of its fourth straight state tournament bid last week with a pair of regional victories.
The Spartans overcame a slow start Tuesday to down South Hardin in four sets and then swept West Marshall Friday.
GC (28-8, ranked No. 9 in Class 2A) will face fifth-ranked South Central Calhoun (38-4) Wednesday in Webster City. Results of the match will be posted online at www.thegrundyregister.com and on our Facebook page.

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Grundy Center dominates Starmont, suffers season ending loss to Wapsie Valley

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WAPSIE VALLEY – All good things must come to an end. So it was with the Grundy Center 2013 football season when the Spartans fell to the third-ranked Wapsie Valley Warriors in the second round of postseason play Monday night, 35-0.
The Warriors put their first points on the board in the first quarter when a slippery ball fell out of Spartan hands and was picked up by Wapsie Valley’s Nolan Schmidt who took it five short yards for the score.