September 2019

GRUNDY CENTER - For those who habitually forget to carry cash on them, there’s good news: the City of Grundy Center recently approved a contract with Interactive Iowa Inc. for a debit/credit card system for the city.
The new system, which was approved at Monday night’s city council meeting, has the potential to be used for various different purposes, whether it’s paying for overdue books or printing costs at the library, paying a parking ticket at city hall, paying for recreation registration online, or buying season passes at the pool.

There are a few lessons to be gleaned from the recent wave of allegations, confessions and apologies that keep pouring out by the day: one is that sexual harassment doesn’t have a political affiliation, a socioeconomic status, a race or a profession. It’s a problem across the spectrum that no one really seems equipped to speak tactfully about or do anything about, for that matter. Another is that anyone looking to celebrities and politicians for moral guidance would be better served visiting a shrink, a preacher, a used car salesman or some mystical hybrid of the three.

It’s common knowledge that launching a business isn’t easy, but Blaine Fisher and his family could never have guessed that it would be this hard.
           
“It was nothing like I expected. I honestly didn’t know what to expect,” he said.
           
After well over a year of meetings, grant applications and fundraising efforts, Blaine and his mother Kandy, the operators of the yet-to-be-opened “Blaine’s on Main,” have officially found a home for their restaurant at 125 North Main Street in Conrad, and they’re renting it in good faith until July of 2018.

The BCLUW school district will offer an early retirement package for staff members who meet a certain set of criteria at 50 percent of their current salary this year after the board approved the plan at Monday night’s regular meeting.
           
Superintendent Ben Petty explained that the district is not required to offer early retirement every year but can do so when it feels that it would be financially advantageous.