Youth from Riverview Baptist Church assist in sorting items at the Mills County Storehouse retail store.
4 days 23 hours ago
The motto of the Mills County Storehouse is “People Helping People.” Thursday, the food pantry and thrift store, known for providing assistance to Mills County and southwest residents in need, was on the receiving end of some help from members of a Christian church in Oklahoma. A missionary...

Assistant Mills County Attorney John Pfeifer, District Court Judge Margaret Reyes and Mills County Board Of Supervisors Chair Richard Crouch.
1 month 1 day 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).
1 month 3 weeks 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...

Courtney Harter
Glenwood has found its new City Administrator / Finance Director. Courtney Harter, former Community Development Director for the City of Council...
June 3, 2026, 1:58 PM

David Farmer
David Farmer received the most votes for a seat on the Mills County Board Of Supervisors in Tuesday's Republican Party Primary Election. Farmer...
June 2, 2026, 11:01 PM
Terms of the agreement new police officers sign when they’re hired by the Glenwood Police Department was the focus of discussion at the May 26...
June 2, 2026, 12:55 PM

Courtney Harter
Glenwood has found its new City Administrator / Finance Director. Courtney Harter, former Community Development Director for the City of Council Bluffs, was formally selected for the position during a special meeting of the Glenwood City Council Tuesday evening. Glenwood Mayor Angie Winquist said...
June 3, 2026

News

Sports


  • Lana Aley anchored the Fremont-Mills girls to a shuttle hurdle relay gold medal at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Relays.
    May 12, 2026
    The Fremont-Mills girls finished second and the boys were fourth at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Track and Field Meet in Corning Thursday. Treynor captured the girls team title with 154 points....

  • Glenwood's Maggie Smith placed second in the discus and sixth in the shot at last week's Hawkeye 10 Conference Track and Field Meet.
    May 12, 2026
    Atlantic ended Glenwood’s seven-year reign at the Hawkeye 10 Conference Track and Field Meet Thursday at the Glenwood Activities Complex.The Trojans captured its first conference title in over...

  • 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, “...

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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