September 2019

The mistakes piled up for the BCLUW football team against Wapsie Valley on Friday night, and the scoreboard reflected it as the Warriors dominated every aspect of the game in a 53-0 blowout.
           
“We’re just so young, and we really played like it tonight,” BCLUW coach Anthony Jahr said. “It’s tough to win without juniors and seniors. It really is.”
           

The emerald ash borer, a destructive insect that attacks and kills ash trees, has been detected for the first time in Grundy County. There are now 65 counties in Iowa with confirmed infestations. Insect samples were collected from a city-owned tree in Dike after an Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship worker noticed ash trees showing the signs of a tree under attack. The collected samples were positively identified as EAB by a federal identifier. The beetle can fly only short distances.

GRUNDY CENTER - Earlier this month, a group of students set up shop selling lemonade in front of the Landmark Bistro to raise money for uniforms for the Grundy Center School District’s Special Olympics team.
 
The students raised $545 thanks to the support of the community.
 
The four students - Robbie Bischoff, Emily Craig, Josie Van Nice and Jamie Hindman - are all in Middle School/High School Special Education instructor Sarah Dier’s class, and are all planning to take part in the Northeast Iowa Special Olympics competition this year.
 

Unlike her Iowa colleague Chuck Grassley, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst isn't a member of the judiciary committee, but she still heard an earful on the drama surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of attempting to sexually assault Dr. Christine Blasey Ford while both were high school students in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., during an hour-long town hall meeting at the Grundy Community Center last Friday afternoon.