DYSART – Newly-elected Union school board director Amanda Sheffler took the oath of office alongside returning directors Reid Carlson, Lindsay Pipho, and Cady Schmidt during the Monday, Nov. 24, annual organizational meeting held in the media center at Union Middle School. Sheffler won ...
TRAER – In the words of Traer historian George Kadrmas, ‘a grand old home’ located southwest of Traer was destroyed by fire on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. “A grand old home burned to the ground last week,” Kadrmas posted Nov. 24 to the Facebook public group St. Vaclav ...
To North Tama Citizens, About November 7, 2025, the staff at Mercy One Clinic in Traer were informed Mercy was closing the Traer clinic. At the same time, the Board of Directors, under the name North Tama Medical Associates (owners of the clinic building) was informed that Mercy One (Trinity ...
FAYETTE – Upper Iowa University is pleased to announce that Chelsey Weber of La Porte City graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in the summer of 2025.
TOLEDO – Last week’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting kicked off on Monday, Nov. 24, with Ben Daleske, the county’s engineer, giving his report. Daleske said that they’ve been stockpiling rock in Chelsea, and they’ve been receiving rock from Salt Creek in Garwin as well. PCI ...
IOWA – The Iowa DNR is releasing a series on chronic wasting disease, to provide the latest information and online tools to one of our most important partners —Iowa’s deer hunters. This series will be released in four parts ahead of the opening of Iowa’s gun deer season. The topics ...
December will be an interesting month in the sky. Saturn will start the month almost straight south during the early evening in a dim part of the sky. The only reasonable bright stars nearby are the Great Square of Pegasus (the Winged Horse) about two fist-widths above Saturn. During the ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025: “After 43 long days, the government shutdown is finally over. Dysfunction in Washington does not serve Iowans. Iowans deserve common sense, not partisan nonsense. As we approach the ...
LA PORTE CITY – Union High School’s drama department staged the science fiction comedy “Adventure” by JD Atkins on Nov. 14 and Nov. 15 at Matt Auditorium. Under second-year director Holden Caloud, the two-act show featured seniors Jersey Siech, Addie Engle, and Ella Grote in the lead ...
TRAER – Financial reasons lie at the heart of the latest MercyOne clinic closure, but that’s not stopping the owners of the clinic’s building in downtown Traer from working to recruit a new provider. Prior to MercyOne’s outreach to patients regarding the closure of MercyOne Traer ...