TOLEDO – The deadline to file as a candidate for the Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025 city-school election came and went last month, and while a significant number of incumbents chose to run for reelection, a pair of directors from both the North Tama County and Union school boards made the decision to ...
TOLEDO — Throughout his political career, State Auditor and gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand has branded himself as a different kind of Democrat — an avid outdoorsman and outspoken Christian from small-town Iowa who can bridge partisan divides with a message appealing to Republicans and ...
TOLEDO – After serving for more than 18 years at the helm of the Tama County Auditor’s Office where she has handled everything from county budgets to elections to clerking for the board of supervisors, Laura Kopsa is set to retire. Kopsa, 63, a Democrat from Tama, said her decision to ...
TRAER – A pair of retirements by longtime members of the Traer community dominated the most recent meeting of the Traer City Council. During the Monday, Dec. 2 regular meeting, the resignation of council member Jon Panfil was approved following the news Panfil and his wife Diane are ...
TOLEDO – History was made in Tama County this past Tuesday evening when voters elected a woman to the board of supervisors for the first time ever. Running unopposed on the Nov. 5 general election ballot for Tama County Supervisor District 3, Heather Knebel, a 35-year-old Republican from ...
DYSART — It’s an election unlike any other. Again. On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump sought to become the second person to serve nonconsecutive terms as U.S. president and Vice President Kamala Harris sought to become the first woman elected president. Down the columns and ...
A direct ballot initiative specific to all Tama County voters was passed in Tuesday's election with overwhelming support. The measure was to make EMS an essential service of the county and creating a 75 cent levy to fund the program. To be implemented the measure needed a total of 60% ...
DYSART – Ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Tama-Grundy Publishing sent questionnaires to all the local candidates in contested statehouse races. This week we feature responses from those running for Iowa House District 76 which includes the communities of Traer, Dysart, and Buckingham ...
TOLEDO – It may be ‘October’ but news that Mark Doland, Republican nominee for Tama County Supervisor District 4, previously resigned from his position as a Mahaska County supervisor will be no ‘surprise’ to many. In a letter to the editor printing this week (page 4), Tama County ...
Ahead of the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election, Tama-Grundy Publishing reporter Ruby McAllister sent questionnaires to all the local candidates in contested statehouse elections. This week we feature responses from those running for Iowa Senate District 38: Democratic incumbent Eric Giddens of ...