TOLEDO - Money was the big subject for the Monday, June 12 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Tama County Treasurer Amanda Kriegel brought the subject of changing banks to the supervisors. County money is currently in both the State Bank of Toledo and the Lincoln Savings Bank. While ...
TOLEDO — The Tama Co. Board of Conservation voted last Wednesday night to begin phasing in a new logo featuring a black and white graphic of a trumpeter swan – a native species once absent from Iowa altogether but thanks to restoration efforts including at Otter Creek Marsh near Chelsea, ...
DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate announced 19 Iowa schools qualified for the Carrie Chapman Catt Award this school year. The award goes to schools that register at least 90 percent of their eligible students to vote. More than 2,600 high school students registered this year in ...
TOLEDO - The Tama County Board of Supervisors had a special meeting on Monday, June 5 at noon. The meeting was to discuss possibly merging the jobs of sanitarian, weed commissioner, and zoning commissioner into one and sharing that employee with Marshall County. In attendance were members ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Board of Health recently found itself in a bit of a mess as it relates to septic transfers, and come July 1 will be on the hook for almost $13,000 in an effort to clean it up. During the board’s March meeting held over Zoom, two separate payments were approved ...
TOLEDO - At the May 22 Tama County Supervisors meeting, a new bench for the courthouse lawn was approved. The bench will be granite and in honor of the Toledo Public School. Toledo Public School classes of 1958-1962 are paying for the new bench. The exact location on the courthouse lawn is ...
TOLEDO – Wednesday, April 26, was Government Day in Tama County for many local high school students, sponsored by local American Legion and Auxiliary units. The group of students – which included North Tama high schoolers – started their day with a mock vote at the Reinig Center in ...
TOLEDO — The Tama County Board of Adjustment met May 3 to discuss the repowering of the Vienna wind farm located near Gladbrook. Only three of the five members were present for the meeting. The Vienna wind farm has been operating for nearly 10 years with 20 turbines sitting on the Tama ...
TOLEDO – As the lake restoration project nears its final stages at Otter Creek Lake and Park, amenities including the campgrounds, playground, and parking are undergoing updates of their own, according to Conservation Director Stephen Mayne. During the monthly meeting of the Tama Co. ...
The biggest issue discussed at the May 1 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was not wind turbines or solar, but the new public comments format. An idea thought up by Supervisor Faircloth, the public comments portion of the meeting was changed from an open conversation to a more muted ...