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MSgt. Cliff Cleveland, a member of the Offutt Air Force Base Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) unit, directs a team of Mills County YMCA summer campers as they construct a shelter at Glenwood Lake Park.

Survivor Camp

Youngsters taking part in a special “Survivor Week” camp at the Mills County YMCA got to spend a day with a team of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) specialists from Offutt Air Force Base last Tuesday. The airmen coordinated a full day of activities for the youngsters, ranging from...

Mills County Election Assistant Katie Dodge (left) and Mills County Auditor Carol Robertson oversee the recount of Oak/St. Mary Township precinct ballots Friday morning at the county courthouse. Election worker Sue Collins runs ballots through the tabulating machine.

Ballot Machine 'Jam' Triggers Recount For Oak/St. Mary Township Polling Site

A minor issue with a vote tabulating machine triggered an administrative recount of primary election ballots cast last Tuesday at one Mills County polling location. Mills County Auditor Carol Robertson said the tabulating machine being utilized at the Oak/St. Mary Township polling location “jammed...

County supervisor candidates Sandi Winton and Richard Crouch check out Election Night results at the Mills County Courthouse.

Richard Crouch Wins Close Race Over Sandi Winton In Republican Primary For County Supervisor Seat

Five-term incumbent Mills County Supervisor Richard Crouch held off challenger Sandi Winton, 796-739, in last Tuesday’s Republican Party primary election. Crouch will be the Republican Party candidate for the lone seat on the board of supervisors up for election in the Nov. 8 general election. “It...

GCSD Food Service workers Michelle Jacobson and Ranae Parks distribute lunches Thursday afternoon at the drive-up meal site at Northeast Elementary School.

Glenwood School District Distributing Free Summer Meals At Northeast Elementary

The Glenwood Community School District (GCSD) is again participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USAD) Summer Food Service Program. Terry Marlow, Director of the GCSD Food Service Department, said meals are available to all children on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are no income...

Brett Alley and Jessie Mayer sort cans at the GRC Recycling Center.

Beat Goes On For GRC Recycling Center

Recycling, by its nature, is a fluid enterprise. Materials, markets, and minimizing waste, they tend to fluctuate. So it goes recycling programs, no matter their altruistic or economic intentions, come and go. Not the Glenwood Resource Center’s Recycling Program. In an era when Mills County has...

Lorraine Duitsman

Administration Changes Coming To GCHS

A new associate principal is joining the administrative staff at Glenwood Community High School just as principal Rick Nickerson has announced his exit for the same position at the Treynor Community School District. In May, the Glenwood Community School District formally announced the hiring of...

Lack Of Recycling Options in Glenwood, Mills County Becomes Growing Concern

EDITOR’S NOTE - This story is the first in a series on recycling options in Glenwood and Mills County. A decade ago, Mills County had more than a dozen sites offering residents places to take their recyclables, diverting thousands of pounds of materials from entering the waste stream and the...

Artema Gray

Multiple Felony Charges Filed Against Former Silver City Clerk

Criminal charges have been filed against Artema Gray, the former city clerk for the city of Silver City accused of improper use of over $61,000 in taxpayer funds. In a release, the Mills County Sheriff’s Office announced that Gray, 44, had been arrested and charged with ongoing criminal conduct, a...

Glenwood Middle School science teacher Tom Berke with some of his sixth grade students.

Longtime Glenwood Educator Surprised By Recieving Lakin Teaching Award

Glenwood Middle School 6th grade science teacher Tom Berke said he was surprised to learn he had been selected as a recipient of a Charles E. Lakin Outstanding Teacher Award. He was presented the award during a surprise ceremony at GMS on May 9. “It was a pleasant surprise to say the least,” Berke...

The Glenwood Community School District has been leasing building space on the Glenwood Resource Center campus for 30 years.

Glenwood School District Wants To Be Proactive After GRC Announcement

When the state of Iowa announced in April it was shuttering the Glenwood Resource Center in 2024, the future of the facility, its 150 clients and more than 600 employees weren’t the only lingering questions. The closing of the facility – and the state’s intended sale of the property – could have...