CORALVILLE – For All-American Jillian ‘Monster’ Worthen, last week’s girls state wrestling tournament ended on a triple high with the Union High School senior taking home her third state wrestling title – a feat that places her among the best of the best wrestlers in not only the ...
Editor’s note: “Leather works” by Telegraph reporter Ruby McAllister took home a top prize in the 2025 Iowa Better Newspaper Contest during the Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) Convention held on Feb. 6 this year. The feature story about Robert Backes’ BobLarry Custom Leather shop ...
TOLEDO – Last Monday (Feb. 3) in a vote of 3-2, the Tama County Board of Supervisors terminated the county’s longtime human resources manager while also beginning the difficult work of addressing a looming nearly $1 million budget shortfall. During the latter part of the meeting which ...
DES MOINES – The Times-Republican (T-R) and the Tama-Grundy newspapers took home a total of eight first-place awards across editorial, photography, website, and advertising categories during the annual Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) awards banquet held at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines ...
GLADBROOK – For the first time in many years, Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) alumna Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru no longer wears a tiara and she’s ok with that. Over a year ago, Bru, who hails from a farm in rural Gladbrook and graduated from GMG last May, was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen ...
WEST DES MOINES – Cordt Holub of Tama County has been named a semi-finalist in the Iowa Farm Bureau’s Young Farmer Conference Discussion Meet. Unlike a debate, the Discussion Meet promotes an exchange of ideas and explores solutions to key challenges facing agriculture. Participants are ...
IOWA CITY – Ellie Behrens of Clutier was among the more than 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa named to the president's list for the 2024 fall semester. The president's list was established in the fall of 1983 to recognize academic excellence. University of Iowa ...
CLUTIER – Hora-Machacek Legion Auxiliary met on Feb. 4 at the post home in Clutier. Day began at 9 a.m. with the following ladies sewing lap quilts together: Valerie S, Deb K, Michelle B, Brenda H, Ronda E, Pauline S, Collette W, Marilyn S, and Diane C. Five of the ladies brought their sewing ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “Roots to Rivers: Exploring the Connection Between Soil Health and Water Quality.” It will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center, 1007 S. Prospect Drive in Toledo, Iowa, 9 ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University and Outreach Tama County office will host an Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest Control Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators Wednesday, March 5, 2025. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety ...