LA PORTE CITY – The Union Community School District is seeking feedback on the general obligation bond referendum considered by voters last fall as district leaders explore options for addressing facility and infrastructure needs. The anonymous community survey is now available online at ...
TRAER – The Traer Community Foundation board members are pleased to announce they are now accepting grant applications from non-profit Traer area groups, for the 2025-grant program. Foundation board members include chairman Pete Holden, Traer City Council; vice chairman Taylor Howard, North ...
DYSART – The Dysart Community Foundation held its Annual Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on March 17, 2025, at the Dysart Community Building. The 2025 Board of Directors for the Foundation elected during the meeting include: Sarah Carter, Chair, representing the Dysart Development Corporation; Carly ...
BATON ROUGE, La. – Eric Keller of Traer was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at Iowa State University. Keller is among approximately 20,000 students, faculty, professional ...
LA PORTE CITY – Union Community School District has partnered with ZeroEyes to implement an AI-based gun detection system, becoming the first Iowa school district east of Interstate 35 and one of only a handful statewide to adopt this technology. ZeroEyes’ software integrates with the ...
TRAER – If you saw several tractors driving the streets of Traer last week on Friday, March 21, they were headed for North Tama County High School as part of the district’s annual FFA Tractor Day! North Tama FFA members who lined up in celebration of the annual event include (from left) ...
DYSART – For the fourth straight year, Dysart’s annual ‘Iowa’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade’ proceeded down exactly one block of Main Street beginning (and ending shortly thereafter) at noon last Sunday. Like last year, the wee event was moved up a day from St. Patrick’s ...
Editor's note: This story will publish in the Friday, March 28, print edition of the North Tama Telegraph. DYSART – Despite the event being billed by local organizers as a town hall to address economic issues, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) spent the bulk of his roughly hourlong stop in ...
TRAER – Nearly 80 years ago, local men Erroll Allen, John Whannel, and Forrest Edwards bought the service station located at what is now Traer’s Sinclair gas station and the business A.W.E. Auto Service was born. In just two weeks’ time, the business – once known for selling ‘the ...
OTTER CREEK LAKE – Fallout from Tama County’s general fund shortfall has now cut deeper into the Conservation budget. During the Thursday, March 13, meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, director Curtis Behrens told board members that in addition to the $100,000 the Board of ...