North Tama County and Union recently announced their respective 2026 Homecoming Courts (Class of 2027). Congratulations to the candidates! Both schools’ football teams are set to play Homecoming games tonight, Friday, Oct. 9. Redhawk Country Court TRAER – North Tama’s Homecoming ...
TRAER – Traer’s Taylor Park will soon be home to a new space to gather. “Our new open-air picnic shelter in Taylor Park is taking shape!” Michelle Podhajsky, a member of the Taylor Park Landscaping & Beautification Committee, told the newspaper in an email last Friday. “The ...
CLUTIER – The tiny but mighty Tama County hamlet of Clutier is celebrating a recent community-sprucing project with a Harvest Picnic this Sunday, Oct. 11. “We are excited to celebrate the completed improvements with the community and, most importantly, to continue preserving the ...
TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Treasurer Amanda Kriegel will seek another term through a write-in campaign after falling short of the Republican nomination earlier this year. Kriegel announced the decision on her campaign Facebook page late last month, setting up another general election contest ...
TAMA – Independent congressional candidate Dave Bushaw spent about an hour and a half making his case for a different kind of politics while visiting Tama County on Saturday, Sept. 26, frequently turning the conversation back to the people sitting around the table. Bushaw, the no-party ...
DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law last Friday a measure changing a state economic development program that could provide nearly $1.4 billion in tax incentives for a $15 billion steel mill project planned in southeast Iowa. “Today, we advance the most consequential economic ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Elberon man who threatened to shoot up a community event and who sent multiple people threatening messages featuring guns was sentenced Sept. 30 to more than six years in federal prison. Daniel Scott Carter, 42, of Elberon, received the prison term after a May 1, 2026, ...
FAYETTE – Upper Iowa University has announced the Dean's List for the 2026 Summer Semester, including local students Josey Wiles of Traer and Jennifer Wood of Traer. To be honored, a student must have earned a minimum 3.50 grade point average and be enrolled as a full-time student. ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University and Outreach Tama County office will host an Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest Control Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators Wednesday, Nov. 4. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education ...
TOLEDO – Under an early morning gray sky, a few citizens had enough energy and gumption to venture out into the dreary morning and make it to the Monday, Sept. 28 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. While the public comment time had its own interesting moments, as a representative from ...