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City Council Discusses Proposal To Replace Deputy City Clerk Position With Finance Officer

A proposal by Glenwood City Administrator / Finance Director Courtney Harter to replace the city’s vacant deputy city clerk position with a “finance officer” received a mixed reaction from city council members last week. Harter said the recent departure of deputy city clerk Justice Lewis has opened...

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Felony Charge Filed For Phone Threat Made To Fremont-Mills School Board Member

A 52-year-old Russell, Iowa man is facing a felony charge after allegedly threatening a member of the Fremont-Mills Board Of Education. The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday that it had received a report of a threatening telephone call to a Fremont-Mills school board member on Aug....

Glenwood Police Department Gets Approval To Reinstate K-9 Unit

The Glenwood Police Department has started the process of bringing back its K-9 unit.\ The department was given the green light last week by the Glenwood City Council to reinstate and begin fundraising for a K-9 unit. Glenwood Police Chief Eic Johansen told city council members the K-9 will be a...

Highway 34 construction projects have reduced traffic to one lane in both directions near Glenwood this summer.

Road, Turning Lane Projects Impacting Highway 34 Traffic

Law enforcement officials are encouraging Mills County motorists to slow down and proceed with caution when driving through the multiple construction zones on U.S. Highway 34 near Glenwood and Pacific Junction. Construction cones and barricades have been in place at various locations on Highway 34...

County Supervisors Take First Step Toward EMS Tax Levy Special Election In March

The Mills County Board of Supervisors went back to the drawing board Tuesday morning and set a public hearing for Nov. 10 to once again declare Emergency Medical Services (EMS) an “essential service.” The public hearing is the first formal step in a required process for setting a county-wide...

Fremont-Mills School Board Fails To Approve Hiring Of Transgender Music Teacher

The Fremont-Mills Board of Education has declined to approve a contract and hiring of a transgender music teacher the district had offered a position to earlier this summer. At its regular monthly meeting last week, the Fremont-Mills Board of Education rejected the contract offer to Ace Rios it...

Successful Petition Drive Will Allow Voters To Decide Size Of County Board

Mills County residents will get to decide if they want to increase the size of the board of supervisors from 3 to 5 after all. On Aug. 11, five weeks after the Mills County Board of Supervisors rejected a resolution that would have automatically put the issue on the November general election ballot...

One of the new entrance roads into the former Glenwood Resource Center campus. View is looking north from Highway 34.

Redevelopment Of Former GRC Campus Is Ongoing Process

With two new access roads off Highway 34 nearly complete, demolition work on the former Glenwood Resource Center campus could begin by the end of the year. Larry Winum, spokesperson for the Glenwood Redevelopment Corporation, the non-profit organization established to oversee redevelopment of...

Joe George, John Stacey and Matt Gray, members of the Mills County Emergency Medical Services System Advisory Council, conducted their first public presentation in Silver City on Aug. 6.

County Supervisors Now Eyeing March Special Election For EMS Tax Levy Vote

The push for a vote on a county-wide Emergency Medical Services (EMS) property tax levy took a somewhat surprising turn Tuesday morning when the Mills County Board Of Supervisors decided not to put a ballot measure for an EMS levy on the November general election ballot. Instead of placing the tax...

Glenwood Community High School students take in the post Homecoming football game fireworks show last fall. (Courtesy Photo - Dustin Heino).

Drone Show To Replace Fireworks After Homecoming Football Game

A new feature is coming to the Glenwood Homecoming celebration in 2026 – a drone show over the skies of the Glenwood Activities Complex after the Rams’ football game against Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson. The drone show is being sponsored by members of the Glenwood Community High School Class of...