GRINNELL – Tommy is the director of Grinnell Farm To Table, a local food business that connects over 35 local farmers with consumers in Poweshiek and Tama County and provides food access to 8 community food pantries in the area. He also works for Iowa Farmers Union as a rural organizer ...
TOLEDO – The Monday, March 18 meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors was a run-of-the-mill showing of parliamentary procedure with not too much on the agenda. The engineer kicked things off, like usual, reporting about the blading that had been done and the salt shipment that they'd ...
GLADBROOK – Attention Gladbrook School graduates, employees, family members, and citizens! The school structure may be gone but memories will last forever. A Panther Pavilion is about to become a reality. We have some plans in the works but need your help to raise money to get the project ...
Join Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) for its upcoming event, “The Birds and Bees: Pollinator Garden Habitat.” The event will be held on Tuesday, April 2 at the Toledo Public Library, 206 E. High Street in Toledo. Registration and dessert will begin at 6:30 p.m. with the ...
VINTON – The Union-North Tama girls’ soccer team kicked off the 2023-24 season on the road Monday night by dropping a non-conference match-up 3-1 to Vinton-Shellsburg amid blustery conditions at Karr Athletic Complex. Roughly six-and-a-half minutes in and with the wind at their backs, ...
TRAER – Spring officially sprung this past Tuesday with the passing of the vernal (spring) equinox, ushering in high lambing season – and National Ag Week! – for many in Iowa including on the farm of Dan Yuska. As of last Friday, Yuska – who farms north of Traer – estimated he ...
TAMA – In a move aimed at tackling a budget shortage, the South Tama County Board of Education introduced a new cost-sharing agreement with the North Tama school district during its regular board meeting on Monday, March 18. Under the agreement, South Tama superintendent John Cain ...
TAMA COUNTY – A three-way race for the Republican nomination to run against Democratic incumbent senator Eric Giddens in the November 2024 general election is one of several area state legislature primary contests to take shape in the wake of last Friday’s candidate filing ...
Last year in June, Poweshiek Water Association issued a voluntary conserve water order for both the Amana and Tama Systems after experiencing peak water usage and a decreasing water source supply. The volunteer order worked as water usage fell to a sustainable amount. Since that time, the ...
DYSART – There was plenty of green to go around in downtown Dysart last Saturday as ‘Iowa’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade’ marched exactly one block of Main Street for the third year in a row. The last two years the parade has been held on St. Patrick’s Day – March 17 ...