FAYETTE – Upper Iowa University has announced the Dean's List for the 2025 Fall Semester. To be honored, a student must have earned a minimum 3.50 grade point average and be enrolled as a full-time student. Local students named to the list include: -John Pranger of La Porte City -Logan ...
LA PORTE CITY – Union High School rounded out the Hall of Fame Class of 2025 ceremonies by inducting two final recipients on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026 – the legendary 2015 wrestling team and one of the program’s most accomplished individuals, grappler Max Thomsen. Both were honored in the ...
DES MOINES – With his dad — Union Knights head wrestling coach and 2000 state medalist Bart Mehlert — both figuratively and literally in his corner Saturday night, Coy Mehlert made it a family tradition by winning gold at the 2026 IHSAA State Wrestling Championships in Des ...
TRAER – The Ripley United Church of Christ quilters are stitching up something truly exciting (and heartwarming!) for the first full day of spring next month — the inaugural “Traer Quilt Experience: Binding Faith and Community through Patchwork, Past, Present & Future.” The event ...
TOLEDO – Coffee, donuts, cinnamon rolls, mingling, and small talk were had among prominent officials from Tama County and Marshalltown on Tuesday, Feb. 10, as they gathered in Toledo to make history. Though the matter had been previously discussed and approved by the Tama County Board of ...
IOWA – Two days after expressing frustrations over tariffs during a virtual roundtable event hosted by the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP), a group of Iowa farmers, including Tama County’s Berleen Wobeter, expressed a sense of hope when some of those tariffs were struck down by the U.S. Supreme ...
March will be a very special month with several interesting events happening in the sky. Foremost is a total eclipse of the Moon on March 3. However, nature will play a cruel trick by having the eclipse in the very early morning. You will need to stay up late or get up early to see it. ...
In 1898, the space at the top of Traer’s winding staircase (aka the Winding Stairs) was a newspaper office. This photo shows the printing press and some of the Traer Star-Clipper newspaper staff at the time. The skylight in the ceiling provided (enough light) for typesetting and running the ...
TOLEDO – In stark contrast to the previous meeting, only about seven people showed up for the Monday, Feb. 16 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Although the popular subject of public health was touched on briefly by one citizen during public comment, the supervisors had other items on ...
In last week’s story “Public Health budget takes center stage at supervisors meeting,” Tama County Public Health & Home Care Clinical Manager LeeAnna Kriegel was quoted by the newspaper as stating during the meeting: “We live in a county that does not have a hospital, does not have ...