September 2019

Wolverines thump South Hamilton, 42-8 (PHOTOS)

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:42am

DIKE –  The Dike-New Hartford football team couldn't truly replicate in practice what South Hamilton does running the football.
 
Instead, the Wolverines quickly produced on offense and gave D-NH time to see the Hawks in the flesh and make the proper defensive adjustments for a 42-8 drubbing of South Hamilton in a Class 1A first-round state playoff game at Dike-New Hartford High School last Friday.
 
D-NH (10-0) will play Interstate 35 (10-0) in Truro on Friday, Nov. 2 with the winner heading to the state semifinals in the UNI-Dome.
 

State-bound Rebels finding their groove at right time

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BOONE – With poise and determination, Gladbrook-Reinbeck fought its way to the Class 1A state volleyball tournament for the first time in 30 years.
 
The best part about it for Rebels’ coach Paula (Petersen) Kelley, who was on the last team to reach the state tourney, was seeing her players get that experience.
 
“It’s probably better as a coach,” Kelley said. “Just because I had that feeling and I want that for these kids to have that opportunity, so it’s way better as a coach.”
 

Area EMS departments receive new Lucas CPR device

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:42am

Humans make mistakes—it’s in our nature, after all. Technological advances and machines, however, have succeeded in reducing those errors, and a new Lucas CPR device that four Grundy County emergency management departments recently received is expected to make the lifesaving process even more efficient in the future.
           

Meet the candidates 2018: Senate District 25

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(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a two-part series about the local state legislature candidates and their political positions. The election is set for November 6.)
Does this whole routine feel familiar?
 

Letter to the editor

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:42am

Bob Kruse was wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. 

In defense of Tracy Freese, she was interviewed before I was so she didn't know, comment or laugh at my comment, 'old fart farmers.'

I didn't give a second thought to making that comment because I was married to my favorite old farmer for close to 50 years. He was never offended when I used it. He expected, when we disagreed, to hear, "There's that old fart farmer," and when he was right, "Chalk one up for the old fart farmers." 

Letter to the editor

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I would like to encourage everyone to get out this year and support our State and Local candidates for office.  We are blessed with outstanding public servants who need and deserve your support at the ballot box, so we can continue growing and improving our great State of Iowa.
 

Letter to the editor

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:42am

Please take the time to vote for our "Friends of Agriculture" on Election Day.  This designation is given to our candidates that agree with policy developed by Grundy County Farm Bureau and the Iowa Farm Bureau. 
 

Letter to the editor

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:42am

“Knowledge is, in any nation, the surest basis for happiness.”
 
Thus did President George Washington address Congress, January 8, 1790—a call for simple study, without  political party lines. Congress respected the president’s clear commitment to education—its properties and purposes—to lead in pursuing America’s happiness.
 

Competition sparse in local races

Published by admin on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 8:42am

The further you get down the ballot, the less you’ve probably heard about the local candidates in the 2018 midterm election. And in Grundy County, at least, there’s a reason: of all of the countywide races, only the agricultural extension council is contested.
           

Rebels can't hang with New London in playoff opener

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On the strength of stellar performance from star running backs Keontae Luckett and Jordan Johnson, New London rattled off 53 unanswered points and defeated Gladbrook-Reinbeck 60-12 in an eight man playoff opener in Gladbrook on Friday night, denying the Rebels a shot at their fourth trip to the UNI Dome in five years.
           
“We did everything we could. It’s just that they’re a better football team than us, and there’s not a whole lot we can do about that,” G-R head coach John Olson said. “But our kids played extremely hard, and it was a lot of fun coaching them.”

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