Guttenberg Press

The Clayton Ridge Drill Team will present their annual Season Showcase on Sunday, Feb. 8, at 2 p.m., in the Guttenberg Gym. The show will feature over a dozen performances by the team as well as guest performances by the Clayton Ridge Cheer Team and soloists from Expressions Dance Studio. Family, friends and the public are invited to attend and celebrate the hard work the team has put in this season. Admission to the show is $5 and limited concessions will be available.

By Audrey Posten

Brent Ostrander’s first year as Clayton County Sheriff was one of learning.

“Year one was learning for everybody—learning how I operate, learning how they operate and how we operate as a group. Learning what the expectations are, what the responsibilities are. It takes time for an agency of this size to blend itself together. But I feel good about where we’re at,” he said.

Harold D. Schilling, 76 of Colesburg, passed away Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids.

Visitation was Sunday, Jan. 25, at Kramer-Morris Funeral Home in Dyersville and before services at the funeral home.

Funeral services were Monday, Jan. 26, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica in Dyersville, conducted by Rev. David Schatz. Burial was in SS Peter & Paul Cemetery in Petersburg.

By Audrey Posten

A man with ancestral ties to Guttenberg has written a book detailing the German immigrant experience of coming to—and making a home in—the mid-19th century United States.

Through “Bold as a Bear: The German Quest for the Iowa Prairie,” John Heithoff traces his ancestors’ journey across the Atlantic to Guttenberg, and later the prairies of Carroll County.