Assistant Mills County Attorney John Pfeifer, District Court Judge Margaret Reyes and Mills County Board Of Supervisors Chair Richard Crouch.
3 days 8 hours ago
Representatives of the Iowa State  Bar Association and Iowa State Bar Foundation presented an America 250 flag to the residents of Mills County during a special ceremony outside the Mills County Courthouse Friday afternoon. Mills County Assistant County Attorney John Pfeifer and District Court...

Glenwood’s Gold Jazz Band turned in a golden performance to top the Class 3A field at the Iowa Jazz Championships last Tuesday in Ames. (COURTESY PHOTO - GLENWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT).
3 weeks 2 days ago
The Glenwood Jazz Band program enjoyed its finest hour last Tuesday - striking gold at the Iowa Jazz Championships. Turning in what director Paul Hart called the “best performance of the year,” Glenwood came home from Ames with the school’s first Iowa Jazz Championships state title. Glenwood’s...

Connie Wilson and other volunteers will be collecting donated baby diapers and wipes at a drop-off event Saturday, April 25 at the Trinity Lutheran Church Annex.
1 month 2 days ago
Families across Mills County will soon have access to diapers and baby wipes free of charge through a program being established through Trinity Lutheran Church in Glenwood. Swaddling Clothes is a national initiative being carried out by various congregations belonging to the Lutheran Church-...

The East Mills Wolverines hosted their first varsity track meet in 13 years last Thursday at the school’s new athletic complex. The new football field / all-weather track is just one piece of the facilities improvements and overhaul made on the East Mills School campus over the past four years.
MALVERN - On Thursday the East Mills Middle-High School hosted its first varsity track and field meet in over 4,000 days. The East Mills Co-ed Track...
May 6, 2026, 1:23 PM
The Glenwood City Council has agreed to a contract with an Omaha-based consultant to serve as Interim City Administrator / Finance Director while the...
May 6, 2026, 1:14 PM

Silver City Fire Chief Greg Stofer, Silver City Mayor Joseph Jaworski, Oak Township Assistant Fire Chief John Stacey and Oak Township Fire Chief Keith Johnson outside the Silver City Fire Station.
Two Mills County fire departments are taking a pro-active approach to combat an understaffing epidemic that’s impacting public safety agencies across...
April 28, 2026, 5:13 PM

The East Mills Wolverines hosted their first varsity track meet in 13 years last Thursday at the school’s new athletic complex. The new football field / all-weather track is just one piece of the facilities improvements and overhaul made on the East Mills School campus over the past four years.
MALVERN - On Thursday the East Mills Middle-High School hosted its first varsity track and field meet in over 4,000 days. The East Mills Co-ed Track and Field meet brought teams from Fremont-Mills, Sidney and Southwest Valley to Malvern to compete for the first meet on the school’s track since 2013...
May 6, 2026

News


  • The East Mills Wolverines hosted their first varsity track meet in 13 years last Thursday at the school’s new athletic complex. The new football field / all-weather track is just one piece of the facilities improvements and overhaul made on the East Mills School campus over the past four years.
    May 6, 2026
    MALVERN - On Thursday the East Mills Middle-High School hosted its first varsity track and field meet in over 4,000 days.The East Mills Co-ed Track and Field meet brought teams from Fremont-Mills,...
  • May 6, 2026
    The Glenwood City Council has agreed to a contract with an Omaha-based consultant to serve as Interim City Administrator / Finance Director while the city finds a replacement for outgoing City...

  • Assistant Mills County Attorney John Pfeifer, District Court Judge Margaret Reyes and Mills County Board Of Supervisors Chair Richard Crouch.
    May 6, 2026
    Representatives of the Iowa State  Bar Association and Iowa State Bar Foundation presented an America 250 flag to the residents of Mills County during a special ceremony outside the Mills County...

Sports


  • Glenwood’s Chase Razor followed up his second-place finish in the high jump at the Council Bluffs Lewis Central Co-ed Meet with a 14th place showing in the same event at the Drake Relays.
    April 27, 2026
    Athletes from Glenwood and Fremont-Mills competed at the 116th edition of the Drake Relays concluding this weekend in Des Moines.Drawing track and field athletes from college and high school, “...

  • Grace Berglund was third in the 3,000-meters at the Sioux City Relays Saturday with a time of 10:21.14.
    April 13, 2026
    The Glenwood girls and boys combined to win 16 medals at the 61st running of the Sioux City Relays Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium at Morningside University.After weather played havoc with the Rams...

  • Drake Buthe
    April 13, 2026
    College coaches didn’t take long to notice what Class 3A already knew last fall: Glenwood’s Drake Buthe is a problem. Now, nearly a dozen Division I scholarship offers later, the...

Features


  • Members of the Hope Squad at Glenwood Community High School pose for a photo in the hallway at GCHS. Front row (left left): Sophia Stroud, Brooklyn Oetter, Payton Stewart, Abby Chase, Charli Sorenson. Middle row: Kaylee Wray, Maddie Severn, Maya Schau and Abigail Lincoln. Back row: Sponsors Hannah Doorenbos and Heather Roberson. Not pictured: Zoey Brown, Ahna Grassau, Lynnea Longchaya and Faulyn Struble.
    February 18, 2025
    Good deeds, acts of kindness and positive messages.For the Hope Squad, these are just a few of the ways the peer-to-peer counseling program is fostering a culture of care at Glenwood Community High...

  • Pat Staebell retired as the school counselor at Northeast Elementary at the end of the school year. He was a counselor at the school for 32 years.
    June 6, 2023
    Pat Staebell, the only school counselor Northeast Elementary has ever known, retired at the end of the 2022-23 school year.The LeMars native has been a fixture at the school since 1991.“I still...

  • GCHS Interim Principal Lorraine Duitsman
    May 30, 2023
     A new principal isn’t the only change coming to Glenwood Community High School.Following Principal Cole Albright’s sudden resignation earlier this month, the Glenwood Board of...

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