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The summer swimming season is over at the Glenwood Aquatic Center.
With the swimming season at the Glenwood Aquatic Center coming to an end last weekend, city officials will now turn their attention to addressing nagging water-loss issues that have plagued the facility over the past several years.
City Administrator Amber Farnan told city council members last week...
Graphic posted by East Mills Community School District.
East Mills Community School District students will not be allowed to use their cell phones in the classroom under a new policy approved by the East Mills administration and board of education.
The new policy for “communication devices” will become effective when the 2024-2025 academic year begins...
The City Of Glenwood’s ordinance prohibiting pit bulls will remain in place despite a request to have the ban against the dog breed lifted.
Resident Katy Pfeiffer made a plea to the city council in June, stating that pit bulls aren’t as vicious or aggressive as they’re perceived to be. The council...
Two Omaha men died after being shot in the parking lot outside a concert at the I-29 Speedway near Pacific Junction Saturday night.
As of early Tuesday afternoon, no arrests had been made in the shooting deaths of two men Saturday night at the I-29 Speedway near Pacific Junction.
The victims, Marcus L. Johnson, 28, and Charles A. Williams Jr., 27, are both from Omaha.
The incident occurred in the parking lot at the motorsports...
Two people were killed in a shooting Saturday night at the I29 Speedway near Pacific Junction.
The incident occurred in the parking lot at the raceway just before 9 p.m., according to a press release from the Iowa Department Of Public Safety released Sunday morning. An outdoor concert was taking...
Nicole Kooiker began her position as interim superintendent for the Glenwood Community School District on July 1
Nicole Kooiker didn’t get the first job she sought in the Glenwood Community School District more than a decade ago.
The second time around proved a far better match.
Kooiker, 49, was hired as the district’s interim superintendent following the surprise April resignation of Dr. Devin Embray, who...
MidAmerican Energy plans to build and operate a 50-megawatt solar energy facility in Indian Creek Township near U.S. Highway 34.
Construction of the first solar energy project in Mills County is expected to begin later this year and could be up and running in 2025.
MidAmerican Energy plans to construct the solar project on a rural site in Indian Creek Township, east of the former Nishna Valley / East Mills Elementary School...
This outfield fence on a ballfield at the Glenwood Recreation Complex was damaged during last Wednesday’s storm system that passed through eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.
Last Wednesday’s powerful thunderstorm system that took down trees and knocked out electrical power to major portions of the Omaha metropolitan area for several days did minimal damage in Mills County.
Travis Hitchcock, Mills County Director of 911 Communications & Emergency Management, said...
The Glenwood chapter of TeamMates Mentoring was named the Chapter Of The Year at the TeamMates Annual Conference in Lincoln, Neb. Some members of the Glenwood TeamMates Mentoring leadership team are shown here with TeamMates co-founder and former University Of Nebraska football coach Dr. Tom Osborne (right) and Will Shields (left), the conference’s keynote speaker and former Nebraska and Kansas City Chiefs football player. (Courtesy - TeamMates Mentoring).
The Glenwood Community School District’s TeamMates mentoring program has been recognized with a prestigious honor.
Earlier this month, Glenwood was named the TeamMates Mentoring Chapter of the Year. The award was presented during the TeamMates Mentoring Annual Conference in Lincoln, Neb.
“It speaks...
The Glenwood Community School District Board of Education has decided it will not put a multi-million dollar general obligation bond before voters this fall.
In a special meeting last Monday, the board voted to put on hold its plan to present a similar bond issue on the November general election...