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Reinbeck News

‘Sometimes the basketball just doesn’t bounce your way on the rim’

DES MOINES – Basketball has motivated a tight-knit group of Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior athletes from a young age. The game can take as much as it gives, though, and that pain was visited on the Rebels in their Class 1A state semifinal on Thursday, March 13. G-R made just one of 13 shot ...

Tama County Legion, Auxiliary to hold joint meeting March 25

REINBECK – Tama County American Legion and Auxiliary will hold their joint meeting on Tuesday, March 25, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at the Reinbeck Post Home. Tama County Government Day Chairman, Trudi Scott, will be at the meeting to talk about the upcoming Government Day set for Wednesday, ...

G-R’s Kennedy Brant selected to IPSWA all-state squad

DES MOINES — Kennedy Brant of Gladbrook-Reinbeck helped lead her team to the girls’ state basketball tournament this winter, and was rewarded for it appropriately. The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association recently named Brant to the Class 1A first team in a vote of statewide media and ...

‘We are trying to mend the bonds’

This is a tale of two towns – one with a school (Reinbeck) and one now without (Gladbrook) – facing down another special election called to essentially keep the lights on in a rural public school district. But if you speak to Gladbrook-Reinbeck (G-R) school board president Donovan Devore ...

Rebels reach state for first time since 1994

NEVADA — Lily Dripps never had a doubt. The Gladbrook-Reinbeck senior could see, from the very first practices this season, how much the Rebel girls basketball team wanted this to be their year. Their will found a way on Wednesday night — G-R opened up a big second-half lead that ...

Skovgard named to University of Iowa president’s list for 2024 fall semester

IOWA CITY — Reagan Skovgard of Reinbeck was among the more than 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa named to the president's list for the 2024 fall semester. University of Iowa undergraduates who achieve a grade point average (GPA; 4.0 is an A) of 4.0 in 12 semester hours ...

Local students named to Iowa State University fall 2024 Dean’s List

AMES — More than 11,500 Iowa State University students have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the fall semester 2024 Dean's List. Students named to the Dean's List must earn a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of ...

Gladbrook-Reinbeck voters head to polls March 4 over voted PPEL increase

REINBECK – It has been exactly one decade since the Gladbrook-Reinbeck (G-R) school board voted 5-2 to close the entire K-8 Gladbrook school campus at year’s end and move all students to buildings in Reinbeck. And in what has become a recurring theme since that time, voters in the ...