Monday, June 16, 2025
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
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MCPH Administrator Katelyn MurtfeldJune 10, 2025Mills 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... -
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.June 10, 2025The Iowa Economic Development Authorities’ City Development Board has approved the city of Council Bluffs’ plan to annex property in southern Pottawattmie County and northwest Mills... -
June 10, 2025Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are now considered essential services in Mills County.By a 2-0 vote at its regular meeting last Tuesday, June 3, county supervisors Richard Crouch and Jack Sayers...
Sports
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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, 2025Glenwood 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, 2025The 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, 2025The 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
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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, 2025Good 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, 2023Pat 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 DuitsmanMay 30, 2023A 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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