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Government

Area high school students attend 67th Tama County Government Day

TOLEDO – Last Wednesday, Tama County’s American Legion posts and Auxiliary units hosted the 67th Tama County Government Day, welcoming high school juniors and seniors from area school districts to Toledo as part of an annual effort to teach students the importance of local, county ...

Rep. Wulf, Sec. Naig visit Iowa Premium

TAMA – Flanked by Rep. Derek Wulf (R-Hudson), Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, a fellow Republican, took a tour of the Iowa Premium Beef plant in Tama with General Manager Jon Surman last Friday morning and learned more about successes and challenges at the facility, which currently ...

Tama County to hire new zoning administrator, weed commissioner

TOLEDO – Tama County needs a new zoning and planning administrator. During the Tama County Board of Supervisors’ April 8 meeting, the board accepted Marshall County’s termination of the two counties’ shared zoning contract. Last fall the counties entered into a 28E agreement for ...

Resolution to reduce board of supervisors from five to three stirs controversy

TOLEDO – Rows and rows of citizens sat eagerly awaiting the 15 minutes of public comment time to express their opinions on the agenda during last Monday’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting, with one even telecommuting to have his say. The agenda item that caused such a stir was a ...

Central Rivers AEA, area school district leaders react to new law

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the much discussed Area Education Agencies (AEA) reform bill into law last Wednesday, March 27, just a day after the Iowa Senate approved the legislation. House File 2612 (HF2612) passed the Senate on March 26 on a 30-18 vote, with Sen. Annette Sweeney (R-Iowa Falls) ...

The new rules

TOLEDO – Last week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was all about rules and handbooks. But before they got into all that, the supervisors heard the engineer’s report. Contract rock has finished being delivered, and trucks were out clearing roads after last week's bout of snow. ...

Grassley staff to hold office hours in Tama County

TAMA COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in 11 Iowa counties including Tama County from April 15 –17. Iowans seeking assistance with a federal agency or wishing to share their views on issues important to them may stop by during the ...

County candidates file for June 4 primary election

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 ...

The need to speed limit

TOLEDO – The Monday, March 18 meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors was a run-of-the-mill showing of parliamentary procedure with not too much on the agenda. The engineer kicked things off, like usual, reporting about the blading that had been done and the salt shipment that they'd ...