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Education

Local volunteers needed for high school speech contest

Union High School has been honored with the opportunity to host the District Large Group Speech Contest this year. The District Large Group Contest will be held on Saturday, January 20, 2024. We are in need of volunteers (roughly 20 adults) for room chairs, time keepers, and additional tasks ...

Give the gift of an experience

Looking for a unique gift to surprise your grandson, daughter or nephew this year? Give the gift of an experience they’ll love! Tama County 4-H opens many of their workshops and events to all youth! We have several options to choose from for camps, workshops and trips in 2024! We’ll supply ...

Union High School Drama Dept. stages ‘Open Interviews’

LA PORTE CITY – High school thespians took to the Matt Auditorium stage last Friday and Saturday evenings as part of the Union High School Drama Department’s fall production of Open Interviews. Under the direction of teacher Stephanie Sauer, a small, tight-knit group of students ...

Northern Tama County observes Veterans Day

Veterans Day – which took place on Saturday, Nov. 11 this year – was observed in several places across northern Tama County on Friday. Public programs were held in the morning at both North Tama and Union Middle School in their respective gymnasiums, while later that day Pete Eikamp and ...

Vote YES for North Tama’s future

What happens when the town you live in no longer has a school? If voters in the North Tama County Community School District do not approve – by a super majority of 60% – the school bond referendum on the 2023 city and school election ballot this coming Tuesday, Nov. 7, in due time we may ...

Bond issue would address key facility needs for North Tama

While the North Tama County Community School District has provided a quality education to generations of students, our school has facility needs that must be addressed soon. Back in March, a proposed bond issue to address the district’s facility needs fell just short of the 60% voter ...

Satellite voters in Traer set single-day county record

TRAER – Last week Wednesday, voters in the North Tama County Community School District set a Tama County record at the Traer Memorial Building for the most ballots processed during a satellite vote. "They did have record turnout yesterday. They processed 182 satellite voters,” Karen ...

Brehm, Youngblut join Union High School’s ACT 30+ club

LA PORTE CITY – Union High School recently announced that two members of the Class of 2024, Adam Brehm (left) and Lauren Youngblut (right) were added to the district’s ACT 30+ Recognition Board which is located in the hallway near the main office. Both students earned an ACT Composite ...

Hosek, Dieleman awarded Tama SWCD scholarships

Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Dylan Hosek of rural Traer and Abe (Douglas) Dieleman of rural Toledo have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dylan is a North Tama graduate ...