November will be a special month in the sky. Brilliant Venus will be climbing higher out of the twilight glow and Saturn will continue to dominate the southern sky. It will be almost in line with Fomalhaut in Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish) below and the two stars on the right side of the ...
TOLEDO – As the sun floated over the horizon and the clouds parted on Monday, Oct. 21, the usual gang of folks gathered for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Like every week, Tama County Engineer Ben Daleske gave his report, kicking off the meeting. The Engineer said that ...
GARWIN – Words on Wellness (WOW) LIVE! Is a monthly program that promotes a healthy lifestyle. The group meets on the third Tuesday of each month at noon at the Garwin Public Library to discuss relevant topics and sample a healthy recipe. Discussion is led by Cheryl Bruene from Iowa State ...
Telegraph note: The Traer Public Library newsletter was inadvertently left out of the print edition of the paper this week. Our apologies for this unintentional error. The newsletter will be back next week in print. On The Calendar: Mon Nov 4 at 1:00 Fit and Feisty Tues Nov 5 at 1:30 ...
TRAER – The cast is changing at the Traer Theatre. After 15 years running the front of house (and everything in between!), theater manager Mona Larsen has chosen to retire. “It was just time,” Larsen said last Wednesday afternoon as she stood behind the movie theater’s concession ...
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 – After spending almost all of her adult life working – starting out at 17 as a rural country school teacher and only retiring from Toledo City Hall in her mid 80s – lifelong Toledo resident Shirley Otterman joined the much-revered centenarian club on Wednesday, Oct. 23. And ...
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 ...
CLUTIER – The Clutier American Legion Hora-Machacek Post 453 in cooperation with members of the Hora-Machacek Legion Auxiliary held their annual fall pancake breakfast and bake sale at the post home in Clutier last Sunday morning with the parking lot packed and the breakfast line ...
TRAER – National Friends of Libraries Week took place this past week (Oct. 20-26). As part of the 19th annual national celebration, the Traer Public Library invites anyone and everyone to become a Friend! All that is required is a love of the library and a willingness to support it. Friends ...