September 2019

Area EMS departments receive new Lucas CPR device

Humans make mistakes—it’s in our nature, after all. Technological advances and machines, however, have succeeded in reducing those errors, and a new Lucas CPR device that four Grundy County emergency management departments recently received is expected to make the lifesaving process even more efficient in the future.
           

Meet the candidates 2018: Senate District 25

(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a two-part series about the local state legislature candidates and their political positions. The election is set for November 6.)
Does this whole routine feel familiar?
 

Letter to the editor

Bob Kruse was wrong on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. 

In defense of Tracy Freese, she was interviewed before I was so she didn't know, comment or laugh at my comment, 'old fart farmers.'

I didn't give a second thought to making that comment because I was married to my favorite old farmer for close to 50 years. He was never offended when I used it. He expected, when we disagreed, to hear, "There's that old fart farmer," and when he was right, "Chalk one up for the old fart farmers." 

Letter to the editor

I would like to encourage everyone to get out this year and support our State and Local candidates for office.  We are blessed with outstanding public servants who need and deserve your support at the ballot box, so we can continue growing and improving our great State of Iowa.
 

Letter to the editor

Please take the time to vote for our "Friends of Agriculture" on Election Day.  This designation is given to our candidates that agree with policy developed by Grundy County Farm Bureau and the Iowa Farm Bureau. 
 

Letter to the editor

“Knowledge is, in any nation, the surest basis for happiness.”
 
Thus did President George Washington address Congress, January 8, 1790—a call for simple study, without  political party lines. Congress respected the president’s clear commitment to education—its properties and purposes—to lead in pursuing America’s happiness.
 

Competition sparse in local races

The further you get down the ballot, the less you’ve probably heard about the local candidates in the 2018 midterm election. And in Grundy County, at least, there’s a reason: of all of the countywide races, only the agricultural extension council is contested.
           

Rebels can't hang with New London in playoff opener

On the strength of stellar performance from star running backs Keontae Luckett and Jordan Johnson, New London rattled off 53 unanswered points and defeated Gladbrook-Reinbeck 60-12 in an eight man playoff opener in Gladbrook on Friday night, denying the Rebels a shot at their fourth trip to the UNI Dome in five years.
           
“We did everything we could. It’s just that they’re a better football team than us, and there’s not a whole lot we can do about that,” G-R head coach John Olson said. “But our kids played extremely hard, and it was a lot of fun coaching them.”

Pizza Hut employee charged with selling pot-laced cookies

A 26-year-old Grundy Center woman has been charged with a Class D felony over the alleged sale of three cookies containing marijuana at her place of employment, the downtown Pizza Hut.
           
According to a court filing dated October 22, Alexandria Marie Pratt sold the treats, which were infused with marijuana and “possible other substances,” while working on October 15 and admitted to the offense after Officer Justin Fox inquired about it. 
 
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D-NH doubles up Regina for district title

The Dike-New Hartford football team defeated Iowa City Regina, 56-28, in Iowa City on Friday night.
 
The victory clinched a district title for the Wolverines (9-0, 5-0 district) as well as a spot in the state playoffs beginning next week. Dike-New Hartford's opponent is to be determined as the Iowa High School Athletic Association puts together the list of state qualifiers and brackets overnight on Friday.
 

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