TRAER – Piano students of Sharon Owens and Carri Holst held a piano recital on Sunday, April 26, at the Traer Public Library’s Kupka Cultural Center. Twenty-six students performed, ranging from second grade to 12th grade. Following the program, a reception to congratulate the students on ...
DYSART – Local American Legion honor guards observed a sunny and terrifically windy Memorial Day this past Monday by conducting rifle salute ceremonies at cemeteries throughout northern Tama County and beyond. Both Dysart and Clutier held services on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, while ...
TRAER – The provider is in and patients are arriving. After opening the doors to its new satellite medical clinic in downtown Traer on Monday, May 4, Peoples Community Health Clinic, Inc. held a ribbon cutting and open house on Wednesday, May 20. Those attending the ceremony included ...
TOLEDO – The four Republican candidates seeking the office of Tama County Treasurer gathered for a forum held at the Tama Civic Center on Tuesday, May 19, fielding questions from moderators Mark Doland and David Turner, both current Tama County Supervisors, before a crowd of approximately 60 ...
TRAER – Ahead of Memorial Day, Traer Legion Auxiliary’s 2026 Little Miss Poppy, six-year-old Lydia Ivory – the daughter of Greg and Natalie (née Owens) Ivory and granddaughter of Jim and Sharon Owens – visited the community on Wednesday, May 20, to distribute poppies in honor and ...
DYSART – Main Street is about to be packed with shopping bags, good food, live music, and plenty of summer fun as Maker’s Market on Main returns to downtown Dysart on Saturday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by the Dysart Chamber of Commerce, this year’s event will feature a ...
TRAER - The first water tower in Traer was a wooden structure in the southwest part of Taylor Park. This photo is taken from the corner of Main and Fifth Streets looking northeast. The bandstand and sidewalks were added to the park around 1905. Notice the telephone lines. Each wire was a ...
CLUTIER – The annual Feast of Corpus Christi Mass will be celebrated at St. Wenceslaus Oratory west of Clutier on Sunday, June 7, 2026. The Mass and procession at 10 a.m. A cemetery walk, featuring the Yuska family, will take place at 8:45 before Mass. The Feast of Corpus Christi ...
TOLEDO – On a sunny Monday, May 18, the usual group assembled for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. After some public comments, the meeting moved on to the engineer's report, which stated that they are touching up the chloride on K Avenue. They hauled rock and started ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Tama County is bringing back its popular Power of Produce (PoP) Club for children at the 2026 Toledo Farmers Market, along with the PoP PLUS program for adults 65 and older. Originally launched in 2011 at the Oregon City Farmers ...