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Today's News

  • Cyclones get past Glenwood

    The Glenwood girl's golf team lost a close match 232 to 229 to Harlan last Tuesday at the Glenwood Golf Course.

    Glenwood's Charley Arno tied for first place with a score of 49 but lost on the playback hole to determine medalist honors. Top medalist honors went to went to Harlan's Chelsey Havick.

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  • Knights first at Stanton meet

    The Fremont-Mills boys and the East Mills girls won first place at the Stanton Co-Ed Track Meet last Tuesday.

    The Knights rolled up 185 team points to the host Vikings’ 106.3 second place points.

    Fremont-Mills got first place medals from Joey Griener in the 800-meters, Brandon Herrick in the high jump, Dylan Miller in the discus and the 200-meters, Tym Wood in the 1,600-meters and from its 4x800-meter, 4x200-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams.

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  • Homeowners File Lawsuit

    A Glenwood family whose house was deemed unsafe to live in has filed a lawsuit alleging the home was not properly designed or constructed.

    According to court documents, Nelson and Christi Leidel, purchased the home at 55540 Forrester Valley Lane in Park Place Acres north of Glenwood for $329,000 in 2004. Last November, federal officials determined the home was unfit to live in.

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  • County Vets Chosen For Honor Flight

    Four veterans from Mills County have been chosen to take part in the second Western Iowa Honor Flight next Tuesday to Washington, D.C.

    Duane Jackson and Hugh Trask of Glenwood and Arno Miller and William Pavkov of Hastings will be among more than 100 World War II-era vets traveling to Washington for a whirlwind day of sightseeing at the city’s military memorials.

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  • Rams second at Atlantic

    Atlantic out paced Glenwood 132 to 107.5 in the team standings to win its own Trojan/Trojann Co-ed Invitational Track Meet on Friday.

    Glenwood got gold medal performances from Kyle Wheeler in the 800-meters and its shuttle hurdle and distance medley relay teams.

    Ian Eflin helped earn 18.5 points for Glenwood after placingsecond in the high jump, 110-meter hurdles and running a leg of the gold medal-winning shuttle hurdle relay team.

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  • AHST first, Fremont-Mills second at Knight invite

    Fremont-Mills got first place medals in the shot put, discus and shuttle hurdle relay and got second place finishes in four other events but it was not enough as A-H-S-T won the team title at the Knight Invitational in Tabor last Friday.

    A-H-S-T finished with 145 points. Fremont-Mills scored 110 for second place.

    Corrine Schoening (shot put) and Brandi Menicucci (discus) swept the throwing events for the Knights. Lauren Alley placed third in the high jump and Mindy Lorimor was also third in the long jump.

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  • Rams suffer first conference setback

    The Glenwood boys soccer team suffered its first Hawkeye 10 loss of the season last Tuesday with a 2-0 setback to Harlan.

    “This was a tough match, they just out hustled us they won most of the 50/50 balls and they scored when they had to,” said Glenwood coach Mike Artist. “We had our changes but couldn't get one in. They just kept pressing the whole game, they made things happen the whole 80 minutes.”

    Artist said the shots on goal were about equal but his team got unorganized and when that happens, he said, things just didn't work.

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  • Feeling The Pain

    Mills County deputies began carrying Tasers last month, but not before they experienced first-hand what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a jolt from one of the electronic control devices.

    The deputies took turns at being Tasered during a training session inside the Glenwood Wrestling Building. Mills County Sheriff Gene Goos said the exercise is a requirement for all law enforcement officers who carry a Taser.

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  • DHS Responds To Push For GRC Closure

    A Department of Human Services spokesman said there are no plans to shutter the Glenwood Resource Center, despite a written report by a watch dog group asking the state to close the state’s largest facility for the mentally handicapped.

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  • Kim Clark Resigns From City Council

    Glenwood has a vacant seat on its city council.

    Kim Clark has resigned from her Ward 3 seat, effective Monday, April 27.

    Clark’s letter of resignation was formally presented at the April 28 regular meeting of the city council. Clark was not in attendance at the meeting.

    Her letter of resignation was brief and offered no explanation for her decision to resign.

    “I have decided to resign my position on the Glenwood City Council effective Monday, April 27, 2009. I have enjoyed serving my fellow neighbors and citizens of Glenwood.”

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