Assistant Mills County Attorney John Pfeifer, District Court Judge Margaret Reyes and Mills County Board Of Supervisors Chair Richard Crouch.
1 week 17 hours ago
Representatives of the Iowa State  Bar Association and Iowa State Bar Foundation presented an America 250 flag to the residents of Mills County during a special ceremony outside the Mills County Courthouse Friday afternoon. Mills County Assistant County Attorney John Pfeifer and District Court...

Glenwood’s Gold Jazz Band turned in a golden performance to top the Class 3A field at the Iowa Jazz Championships last Tuesday in Ames. (COURTESY PHOTO - GLENWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT).
3 weeks 6 days ago
The Glenwood Jazz Band program enjoyed its finest hour last Tuesday - striking gold at the Iowa Jazz Championships. Turning in what director Paul Hart called the “best performance of the year,” Glenwood came home from Ames with the school’s first Iowa Jazz Championships state title. Glenwood’s...

Connie Wilson and other volunteers will be collecting donated baby diapers and wipes at a drop-off event Saturday, April 25 at the Trinity Lutheran Church Annex.
1 month 6 days ago
Families across Mills County will soon have access to diapers and baby wipes free of charge through a program being established through Trinity Lutheran Church in Glenwood. Swaddling Clothes is a national initiative being carried out by various congregations belonging to the Lutheran Church-...

The 2026 Glenwood Homecoming Parade will be Friday, Oct. 16.
Glenwood’s Homecoming Parade will have a red, white and blue theme in 2026. The Glenwood Homecoming Parade Committee has chosen “50 States * 250...
May 13, 2026, 11:28 AM

A construction crew works on the facade of 11 N. Vine St., one of eight Town Square properties being renovated as part of Glenwood’s Downtown Revitalization project.
The ongoing Downtown Revitalization project on Glenwood’s Town Square is expected to extend into the summer months.  City officials had hoped the...
May 13, 2026, 2:00 AM

Lana Aley anchored the Fremont-Mills girls to a shuttle hurdle relay gold medal at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Relays.
The Fremont-Mills girls finished second and the boys were fourth at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Track and Field Meet in Corning Thursday.  Treynor...
May 12, 2026, 12:10 PM

The 2026 Glenwood Homecoming Parade will be Friday, Oct. 16.
Glenwood’s Homecoming Parade will have a red, white and blue theme in 2026. The Glenwood Homecoming Parade Committee has chosen “50 States * 250 Years” as the theme for the parade, scheduled to take place Friday, Oct.16, on Town Square. The theme coincides with America’s 25Oth birthday celebration...
May 13, 2026

News


  • The 2026 Glenwood Homecoming Parade will be Friday, Oct. 16.
    May 13, 2026
    Glenwood’s Homecoming Parade will have a red, white and blue theme in 2026.The Glenwood Homecoming Parade Committee has chosen “50 States * 250 Years” as the theme for the parade,...

  • A construction crew works on the facade of 11 N. Vine St., one of eight Town Square properties being renovated as part of Glenwood’s Downtown Revitalization project.
    May 13, 2026
    The ongoing Downtown Revitalization project on Glenwood’s Town Square is expected to extend into the summer months. City officials had hoped the approximately $1.2 million project would be...

  • The East Mills Wolverines hosted their first varsity track meet in 13 years last Thursday at the school’s new athletic complex. The new football field / all-weather track is just one piece of the facilities improvements and overhaul made on the East Mills School campus over the past four years.
    May 6, 2026
    MALVERN - On Thursday the East Mills Middle-High School hosted its first varsity track and field meet in over 4,000 days.The East Mills Co-ed Track and Field meet brought teams from Fremont-Mills,...

Sports


  • Lana Aley anchored the Fremont-Mills girls to a shuttle hurdle relay gold medal at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Relays.
    May 12, 2026
    The Fremont-Mills girls finished second and the boys were fourth at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Track and Field Meet in Corning Thursday. Treynor captured the girls team title with 154 points....

  • Glenwood's Maggie Smith placed second in the discus and sixth in the shot at last week's Hawkeye 10 Conference Track and Field Meet.
    May 12, 2026
    Atlantic ended Glenwood’s seven-year reign at the Hawkeye 10 Conference Track and Field Meet Thursday at the Glenwood Activities Complex.The Trojans captured its first conference title in over...

  • Glenwood’s Chase Razor followed up his second-place finish in the high jump at the Council Bluffs Lewis Central Co-ed Meet with a 14th place showing in the same event at the Drake Relays.
    April 27, 2026
    Athletes from Glenwood and Fremont-Mills competed at the 116th edition of the Drake Relays concluding this weekend in Des Moines.Drawing track and field athletes from college and high school, “...

Features


  • Members of the Hope Squad at Glenwood Community High School pose for a photo in the hallway at GCHS. Front row (left left): Sophia Stroud, Brooklyn Oetter, Payton Stewart, Abby Chase, Charli Sorenson. Middle row: Kaylee Wray, Maddie Severn, Maya Schau and Abigail Lincoln. Back row: Sponsors Hannah Doorenbos and Heather Roberson. Not pictured: Zoey Brown, Ahna Grassau, Lynnea Longchaya and Faulyn Struble.
    February 18, 2025
    Good deeds, acts of kindness and positive messages.For the Hope Squad, these are just a few of the ways the peer-to-peer counseling program is fostering a culture of care at Glenwood Community High...

  • Pat Staebell retired as the school counselor at Northeast Elementary at the end of the school year. He was a counselor at the school for 32 years.
    June 6, 2023
    Pat Staebell, the only school counselor Northeast Elementary has ever known, retired at the end of the 2022-23 school year.The LeMars native has been a fixture at the school since 1991.“I still...

  • GCHS Interim Principal Lorraine Duitsman
    May 30, 2023
     A new principal isn’t the only change coming to Glenwood Community High School.Following Principal Cole Albright’s sudden resignation earlier this month, the Glenwood Board of...

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