TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present “Living with a Live Owl” on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Licensed falconer Brenda Smith will introduce you to Athena, her two-year-old great horned owl. Smith will begin training ...
TOLEDO – Learn all the basics of baking with a sourdough starter at a Sourdough Workshop on May 29 at 6 p.m. The workshop will be offered at the Tama County Iowa State University Extension and Outreach office in Toledo. Holly Van Heel, a human sciences educator with ISU Extension and ...
AMES – The La Porte-Dysart FFA Chapter took 13 students to the 97th annual Iowa FFA Convention, held at the Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. FFA Members participated in Leadership Development Events and Career Development Events at the convention including Prepared Public Speaking, Ag ...
TOLEDO – On Wednesday, April 9, Tama County’s American Legion posts and Auxiliary units hosted the 68th Tama County Government Day, welcoming high school seniors from area school districts to Toledo as part of an annual effort to teach students the importance of county government. As in ...
WATERLOO – For the fourth straight year, the Union High School Academic Decathlon team took home a state title, thereby earning a trip to Nationals next month. As in years past, Union was crowned Small School Champion during the Iowa Academic Decathlon State Competition held March 7-8 at ...
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles documenting the history of the school buildings in North Tama County Community School District courtesy of the Traer Historical Museum. TRAER – School building programs in the early 1960s were tied to increased enrollment and ...
TOLEDO – The Tri-County Community Band will begin rehearsals once again for its annual performance at the Lincoln Highway Bridge Festival set for Friday, May 16, at the Tama Civic Center. If you have a musical background, you are encouraged to attend rehearsals on Monday evenings beginning ...
TAMA — While plenty of work remains to be done, leaders of the soon to be opened non-denominational K-8 Tama-Toledo Christian School (TTCS) are encouraged by continued progress inside the former St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Tama. As part of that progress, last Saturday, March 29, the ...
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles documenting the history of the school buildings in North Tama County Community School District courtesy of the Traer Historical Museum. TRAER – On August 20, 1954, Traer voters passed a $185,000 bond referendum to build an ...
LA PORTE CITY – The Union Community School District is seeking feedback on the general obligation bond referendum considered by voters last fall as district leaders explore options for addressing facility and infrastructure needs. The anonymous community survey is now available online at ...