TRAER – The Traer City Council recently approved the distribution of $120,000 in local option tax funding to 11 different organizations/entities for fiscal year 2026. Since July 1, 2003, Traer has benefitted from a 1% local option sales and services tax (LOSST) on sales and services already ...
GLADBROOK – Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) announces its 53rd event, “Soil to Shelter: High Tunnel Production.” The event will be held on Thursday, Sept. 25 at MadAcre Farms, 1175 F Avenue in rural Gladbrook. Registration will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the event beginning at 6 ...
TOLEDO – Last week’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, Aug. 25, started with a lively back-and-forth during the public comment time. Afterwards, the official meeting kicked off with Ben Daleske, the Tama County Engineer, giving his weekly report. Dalesek told the board ...
TOLEDO – A new era in local education began on Monday, Aug. 25, as the newly established, nondenominational Tama-Toledo Christian School (TTCS) welcomed 33 students in grades K-8 for the first time inside the renovated former Catholic church at 600 Oswego St. in Tama. The newspaper caught ...
Telegraph Note: This story will publish in the Friday, Sept. 5 print edition. TRAER – Reports of illegal entry last month in the town of Traer are still under investigation. Back on Aug. 23, the Tama County Sheriff’s Office issued a ‘Public Safety Alert’ on Facebook, announcing, ...
MARSHALLTOWN - If you drive on Iowa 8 between Traer and Dysart you need to be aware of the upcoming closure of Iowa 8 that may slow down your trip, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Marshalltown construction office. Beginning at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 9, through Friday, ...
DYSART – Students in the Union Community School District put their best foot forward this past Monday, Aug. 25, on what was the first day of the 2025-26 school year. And as he has every year since beginning in the fall of 2022, Dysart-Geneseo Elementary School Principal Derek Weber ...
VAN HORNE – Democratic State Auditor and gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand’s popularity across the political spectrum is hard to ignore these days as he chips away at visiting all 99 of Iowa’s counties – including Lee’s two county seats, Fort Madison and Keokuk – as part of his 100 ...
DYSART – It’s everything sugar, spice, and savory in the former LB’s Pizza space. On Saturday, Aug. 16, Main Street Dysart’s newest business, Sugar & Spice Eatery and Sweets held its grand opening and ribbon cutting in the former home of LB’s Pizza at 312 Main Street. ...
TOLEDO – Following her first-degree murder conviction last month, Karina Sue Cooper’s sentencing hearing has been pushed back. Karina Cooper, now 48, was arrested and charged on Feb. 19, 2024, with first-degree murder in connection with her husband Ryan Cooper’s death following a more ...