County auditors are guaranteed a certain number of write-ins to tally every election cycle — from ‘anyone else’ to ‘Big Bird’ to 'can't remember the name’ — they’ve probably seen it on a ballot. This past combined city/school election was no different, but the write-in ...
Beginning in 2022 northeast Tama County including the towns of Traer and Dysart will see a new landscape in their Iowa House and Senate districts. On Thursday, October 28, the redistricting plan proposed by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA) was approved by a vote of 48-1 in the ...
Several new candidates alongside mostly incumbents will be sworn in this coming January across the northern Tama County landscape following the combined city/school election that took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. The following results are final unofficial results from the Tama County ...
Student behavior and how best to address it dominated much of the discussion during the North Tama School Board meeting last Monday night. The October 21 regular session of the North Tama School Board was fairly routine up until the Principal Reports. The day prior to the meeting, ...
Iowa’s second round of redistricting maps came out on Thursday, giving lawmakers one week to review the proposal before convening for a special session. This is the second proposal from the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency. Republican lawmakers in early October voted against ...
Vining City Council Member Merlin Rouse was before the Tama County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 18 regarding issues the city faces in repairing two of their main streets. The city is hoping to resurface one block of Main Avenue as well as 1st Street that runs through town going east and ...
Traer Mayoral Candidate: Nicholas Ferguson Age: 31 Profession: Hydrite Maintenance Scheduler/Soldier Education: M.S. Engineering Technology Family: My family consists of a beautiful girlfriend and two cats. My Mother and Father live in Illinois, and I have a brother and nephew that live in ...
Traer Mayoral Candidate: Peter Holden Age: 72 Profession: Engineer Education: Air Force electronic training Family: Three sisters and a brother scattered around the country What motivated you to run for mayor? I thought the past administration was not doing enough to get businesses into ...
Traer Mayoral Candidate: Jay Wolfe AGE: 39 will be the big 40 in December RESIDENCE: My family and I are honored to live in the great community of Traer. PROFESSION: Currently I run an at home e-commerce business with my wife. I was a Realtor for 13 years and owned and operated another ...
Union School Board Candidate: Maureen Hanson Age: 54 Residence: Rural La Porte City Profession: Freelance writer Education: Bachelor of Science in Public Service and Administration in Agriculture, Iowa State University Family: Husband – Robert. Children – Natalie (26), Mitchell ...