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).
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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.
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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-...

Two of Mills County’s young elected leaders. From left: 21-year-old Silver City Mayor Joseph Jaworski and 19-year-old Mills County Supervisor Jack Sayers.
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The word has gotten out - Mills County is the place to live if you want to be elected to political office at a young age. In 2024, then 18-year-old Jack Sayers made history when he was elected to a seat on the Mills County Board Of Supervisors. A year later, in November 2025, 20-year-old Eva Fipps...

From left: Mills County Board Of Supervisors candidates David Farmer, Sandi Winton and Peter Bencker participate in the April 11 forum.
MALVERN - Nearly 100 citizens came to the Charles E. and Florence M. Lakin Community Center Saturday to hear from Mills County’s three Republican...
April 16, 2026, 11:12 AM

Grace Berglund was third in the 3,000-meters at the Sioux City Relays Saturday with a time of 10:21.14.
The Glenwood girls and boys combined to win 16 medals at the 61st running of the Sioux City Relays Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium at Morningside...
April 13, 2026, 12:07 PM

Drake Buthe
College coaches didn’t take long to notice what Class 3A already knew last fall: Glenwood’s Drake Buthe is a problem.  Now, nearly a dozen Division I...
April 13, 2026, 12:04 PM

From left: Mills County Board Of Supervisors candidates David Farmer, Sandi Winton and Peter Bencker participate in the April 11 forum.
MALVERN - Nearly 100 citizens came to the Charles E. and Florence M. Lakin Community Center Saturday to hear from Mills County’s three Republican candidates for county supervisor share their ideas for effective and efficient county government. Peter Bencker, David Farmer and Sandi Winton will be on...
April 16, 2026

News


  • From left: Mills County Board Of Supervisors candidates David Farmer, Sandi Winton and Peter Bencker participate in the April 11 forum.
    April 16, 2026
    MALVERN - Nearly 100 citizens came to the Charles E. and Florence M. Lakin Community Center Saturday to hear from Mills County’s three Republican candidates for county supervisor share their...

  • 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).
    April 16, 2026
    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,...

  • 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.
    April 7, 2026
    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...

Sports


  • Grace Berglund was third in the 3,000-meters at the Sioux City Relays Saturday with a time of 10:21.14.
    April 13, 2026
    The Glenwood girls and boys combined to win 16 medals at the 61st running of the Sioux City Relays Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium at Morningside University.After weather played havoc with the Rams...

  • Drake Buthe
    April 13, 2026
    College coaches didn’t take long to notice what Class 3A already knew last fall: Glenwood’s Drake Buthe is a problem. Now, nearly a dozen Division I scholarship offers later, the...

  • Glenwood’s Kasey Hilsabeck attempts to split a pair of defenders in the Rams’ 3-0 loss to Council Bluffs Lewis Central Thursday at the Glenwood Activities Complex
    April 13, 2026
    Glenwood finished 1-1 at the Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson Soccer Showcase at the Wickersham Athletic Complex Saturday. The Rams (2-2) dropped their opener to Tri-Center 2-1 before bouncing...

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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