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23 hours ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Mira Schmitt-Cash

The Bremer County Board of Supervisors made one change to the budget for the year ending June 30, 2026, after a public hearing on Tuesday, April 22. They reduced funds allocated for a wage study after hearing Iowa Workforce Development was going to do the study at no charge. The change was not expected to reduce the tax levy any further. Kassandra Johnson, county finance director, detailed the levy reduction.

4 days ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Mira Schmitt-Cash

The Waverly-Shell Rock High School Masquers are working toward performing a “good, lighthearted” but dark comedy, according to star Xavier Boeding. The 1942 play “Arsenic and Old Lace,” by Joseph Kesselring, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, May 1 and May 2, in the Waverly-Shell Rock High School Rada Auditorium. Boeding stars as Mortimer Brewster, played in the 1944 film by Cary Grant. Lydia Pawlak plays opposite Mortimer as love interest Elaine Harper.

5 days ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Mira Schmitt-Cash

Students from Waverly-Shell Rock, Janesville, Clarksville and Sumner-Fredericksburg were honored with passage to the All-State Festival for Individual Events Speech hosted at University of Northern Iowa on March 31. Waverly-Shell Rock’s Ole Storlie was among several area students receiving an All-State nomination.

5 days ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Mira Schmitt-Cash

The Waverly-Shell Rock High School Masquers are working toward performing a “good, lighthearted” but dark comedy, according to star Xavier Boeding. The 1942 play “Arsenic and Old Lace,” by Joseph Kesselring, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, May 1 and May 2, in the Waverly-Shell Rock High School Rada Auditorium. Boeding stars as Mortimer Brewster, played in the 1944 film by Cary Grant.

6 days ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Mira Schmitt-Cash

Work on the Waverly Bremer Avenue bridge on Iowa Hwy. 3 and on the future U.S. Hwy. 218 interchange between Waverly and Janesville at 260th Street – west of present-day 218 – are on schedule, according to an Iowa Department of Transportation spokesman. On the Bremer Avenue bridge/Iowa Hwy. 3, the west abutment is completely done and ready for beams, and the east abutment has been poured, according to Pete Hjelmstad, field services coordinator for Iowa DOT District 2.