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Today's News

  • WEDDING - Matthew Aporta/Mary Beth LaRue

    Mary Beth LaRue and Matthew Aporta were united in marriage April 6, 2013, at the historic Santa Margarita Ranch in Santa Margarita, Calif. The ceremony was officiated by David Lynch.

        The bride is the daughter of Dick and Linda LaRue of Glenwood. The groom is the son of John Aporta and Micael Tsavaris of New York, N.Y.
        John LaRue, brother of the bride, served as the man of honor. Two of the bridesmaids were Blaire Winum Schnebel and Ashley Turner of Glenwood.

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  • Preschool Teacher Wins Lakin Award

    Northeast Elementary preschool teacher Liz Jensen is one of two recipients of the prestigious Charles E. Lakin Outstanding Teacher Award for 2013.

    A surprised Jensen was presented the award Monday afternoon at an all-school assembly in the school gymnasium.

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  • Mother, Teacher, Blogger

    A Glenwood preschool teacher and single mother of two children is making a name for herself as a blogger for a San Francisco-based website geared toward issues of interest to women.

    “The website is Lipstick and Politics and I’m not the lipstick” Bobbi Jo Rohrberg said during a recent interview.

    “I’m not into fashion and entertainment. The politics is what I like most, but I’m also a single mom who’s been through divorce so I also like to write things for co-parenting and general parenting.”

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  • Softball Preview

    Balance.

    That’s the word Glenwood softball coach Tim Stanton used to describe his 2013 squad.

    “I think we’ll have several kids that are standout players and when you have that many kids standout, nobody is standing out,” he said. “I think we have a lot of good players and good hitters. I don’t think this going to be ‘Glenwood has this person,’ it’s going to be ‘Glenwood has a team.’”

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  • Baseball Preview

    The Glenwood baseball team returns nine of its top 10 hitters and four pitchers that won at least three games.

    Yet, that wealth of experience isn’t offering head coach Brett Elam the comfort level one might think.

    The Rams committed 95 errors in 35 games a year ago, nearly three per game.

    Elam has made it clear to his team, to play championship level baseball that can’t continue.

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  • Knights, Wolverines come up big at districts

    CORNING - Fremont-Mills’ Kevin Herrick and East Mills’ Nick Pittmon won three events each to win automatic bids to this week’s state track meet with their performances at the Class 1A District meet at Corning on Thursday.

    Herrick took home gold in the high jump, 400-meter dash and 400-meter hurdles. He will be joined at state by teammate Clayton Wilson, who won the 110-meter high hurdles, and Mackenzy Lang who won the 3,200-meters.

    Also qualifying for state for the Knights was Jason Rusten (3,200-meters) and Spencer Phillips (discus).

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  • Record day for Ram track

    Not even rain could dampen the Glenwood track teams’ performances at districts.

    The Glenwood boys qualified a record number 19 athletes in 15 events to win their third straight district title while the girls placed third as a team and qualified a school-record 13 athletes in 11 events before a rain soaked crowd of 400 at Ram Memorial Field on Thursday.

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  • Moms at Home, Moms at Work

      Mother.  
      The woman who traditionally bakes cookies, bandages boo-boos, tells her kids to pick up their bedrooms and so much more.  Many people mature, leave home and then see their parents occasionally.
      The three mothers in this story all have their daughters beside them in the workplace. The three daughters are all very grateful to have their mothers there, learning life’s lessons – even as adults.

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  • Former Glenwood Heights undergoing facelift

      Jerry Moore has a vision for Glenwood Heights.
      Not the least of which was the name of the apartment complex at 301 Ebaugh St. that had fallen into disrepair and was plagued by what Moore called “a bad element” under previous owners.

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  • Glenwood boys soccer gets comeback win in overtime

    Glenwood overcame a  1-0 halftime to win their second straight overtime match in non-conference boys soccer action last Tuesday.

    “This felt like a game where they (Sioux City North) came out stronger than us, we hung in there with our defense and we got the momentum back,” said Glenwood coach Shane Keeling.

    Marco Carrillo got the Stars on the board when his shot deflected off Ram goalkeeper Nick Frazee’s hands just inside the far post for the game’s first goal with just two minutes to go before halftime.

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