MARSHALLTOWN — When Sadie Weekley first came to the Marshalltown Police Department (MPD) all the way back in 2007 after working as a Tama County jailer and as a patrol officer for the city of Toledo, the Dysart native was intrigued by the possibility of moving into a leadership role, but ...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles documenting the history of the school buildings in North Tama County Community School District courtesy of the Traer Historical Museum. TRAER – Just two months after the April fire destroyed the nine-year-old school building, ...
DYSART – The Dysart Pickleball Organization (DPO) is teaming up with Vision Dysart for the first ever Main Street Dysart ‘Flannel Fest’ in a grand push toward meeting DPO’s fundraising goal for new courts. Flannel Fest is set for Thursday, March 20, from 5-8 p.m. The event is being ...
TRAER – Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) announces its 52nd event: “Into the Wild: Safe Mushroom Foraging.” The event will be held on Wednesday, March 26, at Traer Public Library’s Kupka Cultural Center, 531 Second Street. Registration and dessert will begin at 6:30 p.m. with ...
CLUTIER – The Clutier High School Alumni Association will hold its annual banquet on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at the Clutier Legion Hall. Social hour will begin at 4 p.m., with dinner following at 6 p.m. BYOB. Honored classes this year include 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and ...
CLUTIER – Hora-Machacek Legion Auxiliary held their last sewing day for this season on March 4. The ladies sewing lap quilts were: Ronda E, Brenda H, Deb K, Michelle B, Collette W, and Pauline S. Collette and Diane had readied 10 lap quilts on Tuesday, Feb. 18, so ladies had quilts to sew ...
WATERLOO – La Porte-Dysart FFA members competed at the Northeast District FFA Convention at the Waterloo Career Center on March 8. Chapter members who advanced from the Sub District Convention contest once again had the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in Ag Broadcasting, Prepared ...
TOLEDO – The usual suspects congregated last Monday morning (March 3) for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting saw a whopping 25 items on the mammoth-sized agenda be discussed, acted on, and generally mulled over. The first box to get ticked ...
DES MOINES – The bills that survived the first major deadline of Iowa’s 2025 legislative session show that Republicans have moved forward with a number of their priorities through bills focused on issues ranging from higher education to carbon capture pipelines to child care access. The ...
DES MOINES – Most predicted the Knights would prevail in last Saturday’s Class 2A Substate 6 final played at Drake University’s Knapp Center, they just didn’t think it would be Union’s Knights. “Heading into the game I would say we were extremely confident. We talked in the ...