Clint Hurdle
1 week 4 days ago
Clint Hurdle, former Major League baseball player and current member of the Colorado Rockies coaching staff, will be making an appearance in Glenwood on Saturday, June 14, on behalf of Hillsdale Community Church. Hurdle is a personal friend of Hillsdale Community Church Pastor Ken Demlow. “During...

Glenwood Middle School Teacher Melanie Howard, surrounded by friends and family, was presented the Charles E. Lakin Outstanding Teacher Award at a school assembly May 21.
2 weeks 4 days ago
Glenwood Middle School language arts teacher Melanie Howard has been honored as the recipient of a $10,000 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Charles E. Lakin Foundation, recognizing her “exceptional dedication to student connection and engagement.” Howard, who is completing her 34th year as an...

Sydney Rohrberg
2 weeks 4 days ago
I’m excited to share that this summer I will be working as an intern for The Opinion-Tribune. You will be seeing some pieces of my writing in this paper and may find me around asking for interviews or taking photos. I’m a proud 2024 graduate of Glenwood Community High School and a current student...

MCPH Administrator Katelyn Murtfeld
Mills County Public Health is making changes to its program offerings following budget issues and staffing cuts. Programs lost in the cuts included...
June 10, 2025, 4:10 PM

Westbound view of the intersection of 192nd Street and Bunge Ave. The area from the center of Bunge Ave. to the north (right side of photo) will become part of the city of Council Bluffs.
The Iowa Economic Development Authorities’ City  Development Board has approved the city of Council Bluffs’ plan to annex property in southern...
June 10, 2025, 4:02 PM
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are now considered essential services in Mills County. By a 2-0 vote at its regular meeting last Tuesday, June 3,...
June 10, 2025, 3:53 PM

MCPH Administrator Katelyn Murtfeld
Mills County Public Health is making changes to its program offerings following budget issues and staffing cuts. Programs lost in the cuts included the NEST Program for pregnant women and young families, as well as the Circles 4 Support community dinners. For a few months, the Community Health...
June 10, 2025

News

Sports


  • Three of the four runners on the Glenwood girls 4x800-meter relay team celebrate its first place finish and season-best time at the Class 3A State Qualifier Meet in Glenwood Thursday. Pictured from left: Breckyn Petersen, Madelyn Berglund and Haylee Hughes.
    May 19, 2025
    Glenwood placed fourth as a team with 101 points, just four points out of second place.  “This was a loaded state qualifying meet that we knew was going to be a challenge,” said...

  • The Fremont-Mills girls track team celebrates its state qualifying meet champinship Thursday in Woodbine.
    May 19, 2025
    The Fremont-Mills girls qualified in 10 events and ran away with the team title at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet in Woodbine Thursday.The Knights won eight events to notch automatic bids to this...

  • East Mills’ Jackson Embree passes the baton to Jiri Brodigan. Embree and Brodigan, along with Cooper Stearns and Walter Seipold punched their ticket to the 4x200-meter relay at the Griswold state qualifier meet.
    May 19, 2025
    The East Mills boys won the 4x200-meter at the Class 1A State Qualifying meet in Griswold Thursday.The quartet of Jackson Embree, Cooper Stearns, Jiri Brodigan and Walter Seipold ran a 1:33.36 to top...

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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