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  • Music On The Square

    There’s music in the air on Glenwood’s Town Square.
        Earlier this fall, a state-of-the-art sound system was installed around the courtyard of the Mills County Courthouse in an effort to enhance the atmosphere of the Town Square shopping district. The $8,000 system was installed by Glenwood-based Spiral Communications and paid for with funds generated by Glenwood’s 2011 RAGBRAI committee.

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  • Legion Brass In Silver City

    Members of Silver City’s Gordon May American Legion Post 439 rolled out the red carpet for American Legion national vice commander Glenn Hickman last Tuesday evening, Nov. 13.

        Hickman, a U.S. Air Force veteran from Grove City, Ohio, made an appearance in Silver City as part of his 28-stop tour of Legion posts in central and western Iowa.
        Hickman was accompanied on his tour by state commander Lyle Schaffer of Galva and state membership chairman James Demarest.

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  • 25-year Sentence For Ex-county Employee

    A former employee of the Mills County Treasurer’s Office has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison for the theft of funds from the auto licensing department.

    Tammy Jo Gammon, 43, pleaded guilty to the Class B felony in November. She was sentenced Monday in Mills County District Court by Judge Timothy O’Grady.

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  • Leader of the Band

         
     On a bright Saturday afternoon, Quentin Marquez takes the field in Kinnick Stadium, home of the Iowa Hawkeye football team. Wearing a foot-high, blazing white hat with a bright yellow plume, he leads the 250-member Hawkeye Marching Band into position. The late-September weather is brisk, but Marquez’s drum major uniform - as well as the body heat of 70,000 fans - keeps him warm.

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  • County begins $1.5 million renovation to courthouse

        Construction has begun on more than $1.5 million in renovations to the Mills County Courthouse.

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  • Fugitives Arrested In Colorado

        A  pair of Michigan fugitives who stole a vehicle in Glenwood as part of a two-week crime spree have been apprehended in Colorado.
        Kenneth Grauman II, 32, and Greg Bradshaw, 23, were arrested in a hotel in Canon City, Colo., on Thursday by Canon City Police and the U.S. Marshals Service.
        The pair had walked away from  a halfway house in Lake County, Mich., on Sept. 29 leading to a two-week, multi-state manhunt.

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  • Furniture store has been a fixture on Square

        A retail fixture on the south side of Glenwood’s Town Square is closing its doors.

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  • Bridge To The Future

    There’s an upside to the unusually dry weather conditions Mills County has experienced in 2012 – significant progress is being made on the U.S. Highway 34 expansion / Missouri River bridge project in western Mills County.

    “Contractors were able to get a lot of work done with the good weather,” Iowa Department of Transportation project engineer Scott Nixon said last week while speaking to members of the Mills County Economic Development Foundation.

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  • Preserving Pacific Junction's Past

    PACIFIC JUNCTION - Pacific Junction resident Gary Williams has a lot of pride for his small town. His pride extends to his personal collection, and this collection has recently become part of the new Pacific Junction Historical Museum across the street from the post office.

         “I graduated from high school here, and I’m so interested in the town that I just started getting stuff. Then I started going to the library. It gets real habit-forming,” Williams said.

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  • Green Is Out in Glenwood

        The City of Glenwood’s recycling drop-off will close Oct. 1.
        The city council’s 3-0 vote to terminate the city’s contract with Dihne Recycling, which has managed and maintained the troubled recycling drop-off at the city park on Tyson Street for nearly two decades, will permanently shutter the site at the end of this month.

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