TRAER – Traer’s only pharmacy is set to abruptly shutter Tuesday, March 31, following an announcement that four NuCara Pharmacy locations in Iowa are closing and the company is reportedly being acquired by Medicap. Alongside Traer, NuCara pharmacies in Conrad, Ackley, and Zearing are also ...
TRAER – When word got out last November that Traer was to become the third local MercyOne clinic casualty in as many years alongside Dysart and Gladbrook, the rural community of roughly 1,500 people was justifiably concerned considering Tama County has no hospitals and no urgent care ...
DYSART – It took five years (and a reschedule) for ‘Iowa’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade’ in downtown Dysart to finally experience the true luck o’ the Irish via warm temperatures, but for Mayor Tim Glenn, it was well worth the wait – and delay. “Hoping for a 40-plus ...
TOLEDO – Last week Friday at 5 p.m. the county filing deadline passed for Iowa’s Tuesday, June 2, 2026 primary election. The offices of Tama County treasurer, recorder, and attorney, as well as two seats on the Board of Supervisors, will be on the ballot locally. The deadline for written ...
DES MOINES — After more than a decade in the Iowa House of Representatives, Rep. Dean Fisher has no plans of stepping away. “I am running again in 2026,” Fisher said. “I filed my paperwork.” Now in his 14th year in office, the Republican lawmaker says his path to the legislature ...
TRAER – The community of Traer came together on Saturday, March 21, for the inaugural Traer Quilt Experience: Binding Faith and Community with Patchwork. The banner event was co-hosted by Ripley United Church of Christ, the Traer Public Library, and the Traer Historical Museum with support ...
TRAER – Last month, rural Tama County resident and photographer Mindy Finzen and her family were witness to quite a show at their acreage west of Traer as half a dozen bald eagles perched in leafless trees near their home beneath a perfect azure sky. “There were just lots of eagles ...
AMES — Women played essential roles in colonial America and the Revolutionary War, but their contributions often went under-recognized — and unpaid. That was the lesson of “Women in the American Founding,” an hourlong lecture by Karen Kedrowski on March 3 at the Iowa State University ...
Dr. Alford Farnham, a local doctor and surgeon, built the hospital on Main Street in 1915. The main floor consisted of a reception room, doctor’s office and exam rooms. The second floor had an operating room, kitchen and patient rooms. The hospital was open to other doctors in the area as ...
TRAER – Members of Traer’s Girl Scout Troop 2857 gave a presentation of their activities, including sales of their famous cookies, during the Traer American Legion Auxiliary’s March meeting which took place at the Memorial Building.