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Fremont-Mills’ 2022 Homecoming King and Queen candidates are shown in this photo. From left: Caden Blackburn, McKenna Woods, Paxten Van Houten, Teagan Ewalt, Payton Van Houten and Emma Malcom. The Fremont-Mills High School Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned at halftime of Friday night’s football game. - COURTESY PHOTO / FREMONT-MILLS BEACON-ENTERPRISE
It’s homecoming week at Fremont-Mills High School in Tabor.
The school's homecoming ctivities include a Main Street parade at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, the homecoming football game against East Mills on Friday night (7 p.m. kickoff) and the homecoming dance Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Mills County Supervisors Richard Crouch, Lonnie Mayberry and Carol Vinton have become Certified Iowa County Supervisors. The Iowa State Association of County Supervisors (ISACS) honored its first class of Certified Iowa County Supervisors during a ceremony in Des Moines on Aug. 25 that was held...
For the second time this year, Mills County is looking for a new administrator for the Mills County Public Health Office.
Mills County Supervisor Richard Crouch said the position is open following a decision by the Mills County Board of Health to terminate Lorie Ann Gentry. The board of health,...
Joan Hammer admits it’s going to take months - maybe even years - to complete a massive project she’s taken on at the Mills County Historical Museum.
Hammer is overseeing the sorting and filing of thousands of photos, newspaper clippings and documents that have been obtained by the museum through...
This year’s Glenwood Homecoming celebration is earlier than normal - due to a quirk in the Rams’ football schedule - but that won’t diminish the excitement of the annual celebration that will bring hundreds of Glenwood Community High School alumni and visitors to town this weekend.
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The old adage goes, “You want to hear God laugh? Make a plan.”
After years of waiting, paperwork and legal hoops jumped through, Alex and Morgan Heard finally completed the adoption of their first child. Baby girl River arrived Nov. 11.
One month later, the Heards got a second surprise: they were...
Fifty years ago this month, Dianne Anderson (Thompson) made history when she was crowned the youngest queen in the history of the Mills County Fair . . . and the youngest queen in the history of the Iowa State Fair.
“I was the youngest one they had ever had at the county fair,” Thompson recalled...
Officials from the City of Glenwood conducted a walk-through inspection at the Glenwood Aquatic Center last Wednesday with representatives of JEO Consulting and Eagle Engineering as a first step in determining what repairs are needed and what recourse the city has to resolve ongoing water loss...
County and state economic development leaders are hopeful the certification of a proposed “mega site” in Mills County could create economic development in southwest Iowa and have a positive impact on the future of the county and the region.
Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) Director Debi...
Mills County had no representation in the Iowa State Fair Queen competition this year following a decision by the Mills County Fair Association Board of Directors to take away Maggie Begbie’s title as county fair queen.
In court documents filed in Mills County District Court, Begbie said she was...