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The Runza restaurant in Glenwood is projected to open in early 2024, according a spokesperson at the companie's corporate office in Lincoln, Neb.

Runza Restaurant Expected To Open In Early 2024

The planned opening in the Spring of 2023 didn’t happen, but construction of a building that will house a Runza restaurant and Pizza Hut in Glenwood is still on the drawing board. “The Glenwood team has begun work on the site and anticipate opening in early 2024,” Runza Restaurants Director Of...

A Lasting Legacy: Friends, family of Tom Sperling ride RAGBRAI in his honor

EDITOR’S NOTE - For many years, the late Tom Sperling chronicled his journey across the state of Iowa as a participant in RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa). Tom’s RAGBRAI Journal became a tradition and was published annually in The Opinion-Tribune after the ride had been...

Bicyclists roll along Gaston Avenue east of Glenwood during RAGBRAI in 2016.

Glenwood will make pitch to host RAGBRAI in 2024

The Glenwood City Council has given the Mills County Chamber Of Commerce the green light to pursue RAGBRAI (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) for 2024. Addressing the city council at its regular meeting last Tuesday, Aug. 8, Mills County Chamber Of Commerce Executive Director Jennie...

Ami Petersen took over as the new Mills County Auditor on Aug. 1.

Petersen takes over as Mills County Auditor

The Mills County Auditor’s Office has its new leader. But she’s no new face to the department or the county. Ami Petersen, who has worked in the office for a year, has called Glenwood home for three decades. She officially took over for out-going, longtime auditor Carol Robertson on Aug. 1....

Construction on the $22 million renovation and addition at East Mills K-12 School began last Fall and is slated to be completed in fall 2024.

East Mills’ facilities on schedule for fall 2024 opening

This time next August, students and teachers will walk into what will essentially be a brand new East Mills K-12 building. In an interview last week with The Opinion-Tribune, East Mills Community Schools Superintendent Tim Hood said the $22 million renovation and addition to the school is on budget...

Cultivate Community will take place Wednesday evening on Glenwood's Town Square.

Annual Cultivate Community Wednesday Night

Glenwood’s Cultivate Community event - a family-oriented evening of community engagement on Town Square - has become a summertime tradition. The sixth Cultivate Community is scheduled to place Wednesday evening (Aug. 9). “I think it’s an amazing event,” Glenwood Police Chief Eric Johansen said. “It...

Amber Landolt opened Juniper Metal Works in 2019.

Business Spotlight - Juniper Metal Works

Amber Landolt is living her dream. While a student at Iowa State University, Landolt realized she had found her passion when she dropped an interior design class and replaced it with a metalsmithing class. “I walked in and it was like instant, ‘This is where I need to be,’” she recalled. “...

Pre-school special education teacher Laura Kelly (left) took a trip to Uganda in June. She is holding a fundraiser in Glenwood Aug. 10 to help support the development of wells to bring clean water to Uganda.

Pre-school Educator Moved By Recent Trip To Uganda

A local educator got a first-hand look at the living conditions in some of the remote villages of Uganda during a recent visit to the African country. Laura Kelly was among 13 Americans that made the journey in June with Heal & Thrive Global, a United States-based nonprofit organization working...

East Mills Child Care Solutions recently received a significant contribution from Malvern Bank for a proposed childcare center in Malvern.

Malvern Bank Contributes $400,000 Toward Child Development Center

East Mills Childcare Solutions (EMCCS) has announced a $400,000 contribution from Malvern Bank toward the renovation of the Lakin Foundation Child Development Center of East Mills. EMCCS, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, has been working for a year to raise funding to renovate a former nursing home building...

City Council Approves Purchase Of Shed For Pickleball Courts

The Southwest Iowa Pickleball Club will get a storage shed for its equipment afterall. Acting on a request from Glenwood Park Board President Randy Romens, the Glenwood City Council agreed to the purchase of a storage shed (not to exceed $3,000) for the city-owned pickleball court complex on South...