Glenwood Community High School Activities Director Jeff Bissen visits with Creston High School student-athlete Nate Bentley at Children’s Hospital in Omaha Friday. Bentley collapsed at a track meet in Glenwood last Tuesday, April 8.
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The quick thinking and action of bystanders, staff and paramedics is being credited with saving the life of a student that collapsed at the Glenwood Athletic Complex track during last Tuesday’s Glenwood Ram Relays. Just after 5:20 p.m., a Creston High School freshman suffered a medical emergency...

Iowa PBS will premiere two Road Trip Iowa episodes featuring the Loess Hills in Malvern April 22.
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Iowa PBS is bringing Road Trip Iowa to Malvern. The statewide public broadcasting network will be at Art Church Iowa in Malvern on Tuesday, April 22, for a special premiere event featuring two episodes from season 2 of Road Trip Iowa. In season 2 of the series, Iowa PBS continues the adventure...

Mills County native Katrina Markel is a television reporter for KMTV 3 News in Omaha, reporting on people and issues in southwest Iowa.
3 weeks 6 days ago
Her ambitions have taken her to the bright lights of some of the world’s largest and most glamorous cities – New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mumbai (India) and Dundee (Scotland), yet Mills County native Katrina Markel is finding fulfillment these days telling stories about the people and...
With an agreement now in place with the union that represents its police officers and public works employees, the City of Glenwood is nearing the...
April 22, 2025, 5:36 PM
  The bad news? The Glenwood Community School District needed to cut $750,000 from its 2025-2026 fiscal budget due to a 94-student dip in enrollment...
April 22, 2025, 5:22 PM

Dustin Archer-McClain, Director Of Nursing at Glen Haven Village, was presented the facility’s award April 7 in Atlanta, Ga.
Glen Haven Village is one of 38 Iowa long-term care facilities recently recognized nationally for their commitment to quality care. Glen Haven...
April 22, 2025, 5:09 PM
With an agreement now in place with the union that represents its police officers and public works employees, the City of Glenwood is nearing the completion of its budget process for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. A final public hearing on the city’s proposed budget for FY26 will take place Tuesday,...
April 22, 2025

News

  • April 22, 2025
    With an agreement now in place with the union that represents its police officers and public works employees, the City of Glenwood is nearing the completion of its budget process for the 2025-2026...
  • April 22, 2025
     The bad news?The Glenwood Community School District needed to cut $750,000 from its 2025-2026 fiscal budget due to a 94-student dip in enrollment this school year.The good news?The district...

  • Dustin Archer-McClain, Director Of Nursing at Glen Haven Village, was presented the facility’s award April 7 in Atlanta, Ga.
    April 22, 2025
    Glen Haven Village is one of 38 Iowa long-term care facilities recently recognized nationally for their commitment to quality care. Glen Haven Village is among the facilities to receive a 2024...

Sports


  • Megan Hughes takes the baton handoff from Erin Dougherty in the 4x200-meter relay in Treynor last week.
    April 21, 2025
    Council Bluffs Lewis Central edged Glenwood for the team title at the weather-shortened Girls Ram Relays at the Glenwood Activities Complex Thursday.The Titans tallied 92 points to the Rams’ 85...

  • Carlie Chambers won one of Fremont-Mills’ eight gold medals at Shenandoah. The senior topped the field with a leap of 5-feet.
    April 21, 2025
    Fremont-Mills captured eight gold medals to run away with the team title at the Fillie Relays in Shenandoah Thursday.The Knights won the meet with 129 points. The host Fillies were the runner up with...

  • Glenwood’s Grahm Newberry defeated Southwest Valley’s Jordan Bruce in No. 3 singles last week.
    April 14, 2025
    Red Oak downed Glenwood 6-3 in a Hawkeye 10 Conference dual in Glenwood Thursday.The Tigers’ Brett Erickson, Landon Gigstad, Ethan Strunk and Jackson Perdue picked up singles wins. The No. 2...

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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