Members of the North Tama School Board began their Monday, Dec. 20 meeting by touring the district’s Industrial Tech Lab as part of the meeting's Spotlight on Education. As part of the tour, Industrial Tech teacher Rick Samuelson and senior Cale Bradley demonstrated the lab's newly functional ...

North Tama’s facility study took further shape last week during the school board’s Monday, Dec. 20 meeting when four options for upgrading district facilities were presented to the board for consideration by Andrew Bell with Align Architecture & Planning and Devin Kack with Plunkett ...

Michelle Gethmann (left), director of Pied Piper Preschool and Childcare Center, receives many gifted children's books from Traer PEO Chapter EC at their December meeting. Photo submitted

It’s a rule of thumb for journalists to report the story, never become part of it. But when asked recently by North Tama High School’s 12th grade Government teacher Matt Walston to participate in his mock election project, the Telegraph jumped at the chance to place a real reporter in the ...

Child care and workforce shortages as well as rural stabilization were in the spotlight this past Tuesday, Nov. 23, at Dysart’s Little Knights Learning Center thanks to a visit from U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa). Rep. Hinson — who is in her first term as the U.S. representative from ...

Discussion regarding the new OSHA vaccination and testing standard, a softball sharing agreement with Gladbrook-Reinbeck, and a transportation director sharing agreement with Vinton-Shellsburg were just a few of the topics discussed during the regular October meeting of the Union School Board ...

For many area school children, the school lunch menu seems a little different this year — a glut of pears some weeks, a lot more lunches featuring applesauce and baked beans, and just less variety than in years past — and there’s a reason for that. Supply chain issues. As supply chain ...

Discussion of potential federal vaccine/testing requirements for employers and the use of the county’s canine assistant in-school program occupied much of the North Tama School Board meeting on Nov. 15. Prior to those discussions, four board directors that won seats in the Nov. 2 school ...

Come celebrate the two year anniversary of the North Tama Dollars for Scholars program! A free-will donation will go to fund our scholarships of $1000 each. Carryout meals will be available. Join us Saturday, December 4, 2021, from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the North Tama Schools lunchroom.