DES MOINES – Iowa lawmakers are heading into the 2026 legislative session with several new leaders – but many of the issues expected to take top priority are subjects left unresolved in 2025, namely eminent domain and property taxes. Lawmakers presented legislation on both of these issues ...
DYSART – William “Bill” Zak made what he thought would be a simple stop for coffee and a quick check of his lottery tickets at a gas station in Vinton on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, while on his way to a pheasant hunt. He ended up leaving the store $1,000,004 richer. “I ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – I had hours remaining before my return flight, and timed tickets were going to be the end of me. I had lucked out with a slot at the Hermitage, the estate of former president Andrew Jackson, that got me in the door right as a downburst of rain stalled over the place ...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Petty Officer 1st Class Cody Finical, a Traer native and North Tama Class of 2013 alumnus, serves with Navy Medicine assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Portsmouth, in Portsmouth, Virginia. The skills and values needed to succeed in the Navy are ...
MARSHALLTOWN — Grant Gibbons has been named the new publisher of The Times-Republican and the Tama-Grundy weekly publications. Gibbons, who has worked in the newspaper industry since 1988, started in his new position Dec. 15, replacing Terry Christensen who retired Nov. 21. He holds a ...
Sean and Kim Dengler of Urbandale welcomed the birth of their first child, Asher James Dengler, on December 22. He was born at Methodist West Hospital in West Des Moines. Asher came into the world weighing 8 lbs, 7.8 oz while measuring 21 inches. Grandparents are Jim (James) and Linda Hale of ...
DYSART – “We have the best folks here in Dysart and Tama County, I truly mean that,” Dysart Police Officer Jeremy Stenda posted to social media shortly before Christmas following his department’s successful 9th annual ‘Shop with a Cop’ event that took place on Thursday, Dec. 18, ...
MARSHALLTOWN – Iowa welcomed home its fallen hero on a somber Christmas Eve as the body of Iowa Army National Guard Staff Sgt. William Nathaniel “Nate” Howard, 29, a Class of 2014 Marshalltown High School graduate who was killed in an ISIS terrorist attack while serving in Palmyra, ...
MARSHALLTOWN – The funeral service for Staff Sgt. William Nathaniel “Nate” Howard was held on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025, at the Marshalltown High School Roundhouse. Hundreds of citizens and uniformed soldiers gathered inside to honor the slain Iowa National Guardsman, who was killed in ...
TOLEDO – Tama County Farm Bureau received the County Award of Excellence during Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s 107th annual meeting held Dec. 9-10, 2025, in Des Moines. This designation recognizes county Farm Bureaus that actively engaged and achieved success in the priority areas of ...