Friday, July 11, 2025
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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,...
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 achieved those cuts without eliminating staff or any major programming, according to Glenwood...
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 Village is among the facilities to receive a 2024 National Quality Award from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (...
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.
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...
Richard Blowers said the city’s current ordinance that requires political signs to be taken down within seven days after an election is “unconstitutional” and he won’t be removing these signs from his yard at 211 S. Locust St.
The City Of Glenwood is removing a provision in its Land Development Ordinance that requires political signs to be taken down within one week after an election.
The action is being taken after a member of the audience at the April 8 meeting of the Glenwood City Council said the ordinance is “...
The Mills County Board Of Supervisors are in the final stages of finalizing their budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
The proposed FY26 budget includes reductions in the county’s urban and rural property tax levies from the current rates but an increase in actual property tax...
County and economic development officials take part in a September 2019 ground-breaking ceremony for the WSI ag product protection building located south of Bunge Ave.
Mills County is making a major cut in tax dollar support to the Mills County Economic Development Foundation (MCEDF) in its proposed budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
County funding for economic development is being reduced by the board of supervisors from around $200,000 to $10,000, Mills...
Glenwood Public Library
Residents continued to voice their support for the Glenwood Public Library at last week’s regular meeting of the Glenwood City Council.
Eight citizens spoke up on behalf of the library and asked the city council to keep the facility fully staffed and funded.
Barbara Reif said the city has many...
The Mills County Sheriff’s Office has been given the green light to hire an additional deputy.
The board of supervisors approved a request from Sheriff Greg Schultz to add the deputy position during the board’s April 1 meeting.
“It will increase our coverage throughout the county,” Schultz said. “...
Some Mills County elected officials will be getting pay raises on July 1 and some will not.
The Mills County Board Of Supervisors took formal action Tuesday morning to set the salaries of elected officials for fiscal year 2026, which begins July 1. The action came after supervisors met face to face...
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