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The scene on West Sixth Street Monday afternoon after a construction crew hit a natural gas line.
The massive Sixth Street construction project in Glenwood hit a bump in the road late Monday afternoon when a construction crew ruptured a natural gas line near the intersection of Sixth and Elm Street, bringing work to a halt and forcing the evacuation of the surrounding neighborhood. The leaking...

On Monday, Sept. 18, Mike Collins and other employees at the Glenwood Cemetery began removing 27 dead and dying ash trees at the cemetery.
Emerald Ash Bore is methodically wiping out the ash tree population in Glenwood and Mills County. Beginning this week, 27 dead or infected ash trees are being cut down at the Glenwood Cemetery and that’s just a fraction of the infected trees in the city. The wood-boring beetle, whcih was first...

Glenwood Resource Center Administration Building.
The Glenwood Community School District is currently in discussions with the state to assume ownership of the Glenwood Resource Center’s administration building when the campus closes its doors next summer. In an update at last Monday’s regular Board of Education meeting provided by Glenwood...

Northeast Elementary School Principal Ashlie Salazar gives parents a tour of the school building at the conclusion of Thursday night’s forum.
The first public forum for the Glenwood Community School District’s upcoming $39.9 million bond issue attracted a sparse crowd to Northeast Elementary School Thursday evening. Approximately 25 people were at the forum, with about one-third of those in attendance representing the school district (...

Queen Lauren Hughes and King Keaton Mayhew at Glenwood's Homecoming Coronation.
Lauren Hughes was crowned Queen and Keaton Mayhew is King at the 2023 Glenwood Homecoming Coronation Saturday at Glenwood Community High School. For complete coverage of homecoming, see this week's print edition of The Opinion-Tribune.

B&R Stores plans to open a new Russ’s Market grocery store in Glenwood in the former Shopko Hometown store.
Glenwood is getting a new grocery store with a familiar name. Russ’s Market recently announced plans to open a new Glenwood supermarket in the adjacent space next door to its current location at 900 S. Locust St. The new Russ’s Market will be located in the building that previously housed the...

The entire Loess Hills Conservation Development Zoning District in Mills County (dark green area) would be impacted by the ordinance change being discussed. (Map Courtesy Of Mills County Planning and Zoning).
The Mills County Planning and Zoning Commission heard more than a dozen comments last week from citizens opposed to a potential ordinance change that would allow commercial events involving motorcycles, all terrain and utility terrain vehicles to take place in the Loess Hills Conservation Zoning...

The 2024 swimming season at the Glenwood Aquatic Center wrapped up last weekend.
The Glenwood Aquatic Center had a later-than-normal start and finish to its summer swimming season in 2024. Water loss issues delayed the opening of the facility until June 12, but the season was extended into Labor Day weekend to make up for the lost days in late May and early June. The final day...

Tim Becker provides instructions to Glenwood caucus goers in 2016.
The Central Committee of the Republican Party Of Iowa has finalized the “Caucus-to-Convention” schedule for the 2024 election cycle. The GOP election cycle across the state will formally begin on Monday, Jan. 15, with caucus night to establish the party’s platform and select the state’s choice to...

Some members of the Supplies 4 Success team: Denise Crawford, Desi Bartel, Carol Robertson, Laura Hillbusch, Lora Fisher, Nicole Thomas, Sydney Rohrberg, Jabe Rounds, Keaton Mayhew, Lydia Fuoss, Liam Hays and Ava Scott. Not pictured: Barb Mass and Michelle Wright.
Thanks to the efforts of the Glenwood Kiwanis Club, Glenwood Community High School Key Club and First National Bank (FNBO), more than 50 children in the Glenwood Community School District started the school year with a new backpack filled with the supplies they need to complete their classroom...

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