TOLEDO – Last week Friday at 5 p.m. the county filing deadline passed for the June 4 primary election. The offices of county auditor and county sheriff, as well as five seats on the county board of supervisors, will be on the Tama County primary ballot this June.
Tama County Auditor
Only ...
GRINNELL – Tommy is the director of Grinnell Farm To Table, a local food business that connects over 35 local farmers with consumers in Poweshiek and Tama County and provides food access to 8 community food pantries in the area. He also works for Iowa Farmers Union as a rural organizer ...
TAMA COUNTY – A three-way race for the Republican nomination to run against Democratic incumbent senator Eric Giddens in the November 2024 general election is one of several area state legislature primary contests to take shape in the wake of last Friday’s candidate filing ...
DYSART – She may be just nine years old, but Maecy Schmidt harbors some big dreams including one day becoming the first female sheriff of Tama County. While she waits on achieving that milestone, however, she’s started helping her dad, Tama County Sheriff’s Deputy Casey Schmidt with ...
Tama County Sheriff's Office Detective Trevor J. Killian has recently been selected for his second assignment as the next 607th Military Police Battalion Command Sergeant Major in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Command Sergeants Major is the senior most noncommissioned officer in the Army. The 607th ...
TAMA COUNTY – In the end, it really wasn’t much of a contest.
Much like the rest of Iowa, Republican caucusgoers in Tama County overwhelmingly favored one candidate Monday night for the 2024 presidential nominee – former president Donald Trump who garnered more than 58% of the caucus ...
DYSART – On December 13, 2023, two city councilors and the mayor were sworn in during the regular Dysart City Council meeting held at city hall including incumbent councilors Mary Wankowicz and Stacey Dabney, and Mayor Tim Glenn. All three were reelected to four-year terms following the Nov. ...
CLUTIER – This one’s for the girls.
Following the 2023 city/school election held on Nov. 7, four members-elect of the new, six-member Clutier city government took the oath of office during the Monday, Dec. 4 council meeting – ushering in what is most likely the municipality’s first ...
Following the official first and second canvass of the Nov. 7 city and school elections in Tama County, the winner of Union’s District 1 school board seat as well as city government races in Clutier, Garwin, Tama, and Vining were decided by write-in votes.
Union school board
The Union ...
TRAER – Iowa Sec. of State Paul Pate stopped by North Tama High School last week Thursday to present members of the senior class with the 2023-24 Carrie Chapman Catt Award for registering at least 90% of eligible students to vote.
This is the first time North Tama has received the annual ...