Telegraph note: The Traer Public Library newsletter was inadvertently left out of the print edition of the paper this week. Our apologies for this unintentional error. The newsletter will be back next week in print. On The Calendar: Mon Nov 4 at 1:00 Fit and Feisty Tues Nov 5 at 1:30 ...
TRAER – The cast is changing at the Traer Theatre. After 15 years running the front of house (and everything in between!), theater manager Mona Larsen has chosen to retire. “It was just time,” Larsen said last Wednesday afternoon as she stood behind the movie theater’s concession ...
DYSART – Ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Tama-Grundy Publishing sent questionnaires to all the local candidates in contested statehouse races. This week we feature responses from those running for Iowa House District 76 which includes the communities of Traer, Dysart, and Buckingham ...
TOLEDO – After spending almost all of her adult life working – starting out at 17 as a rural country school teacher and only retiring from Toledo City Hall in her mid 80s – lifelong Toledo resident Shirley Otterman joined the much-revered centenarian club on Wednesday, Oct. 23. And ...
TOLEDO – It may be ‘October’ but news that Mark Doland, Republican nominee for Tama County Supervisor District 4, previously resigned from his position as a Mahaska County supervisor will be no ‘surprise’ to many. In a letter to the editor printing this week (page 4), Tama County ...
CLUTIER – The Clutier American Legion Hora-Machacek Post 453 in cooperation with members of the Hora-Machacek Legion Auxiliary held their annual fall pancake breakfast and bake sale at the post home in Clutier last Sunday morning with the parking lot packed and the breakfast line ...
TRAER – National Friends of Libraries Week took place this past week (Oct. 20-26). As part of the 19th annual national celebration, the Traer Public Library invites anyone and everyone to become a Friend! All that is required is a love of the library and a willingness to support it. Friends ...
TOLEDO – Last Monday morning, as the chilly October breeze blew through town, the usual group of locals met for the week's Tama County Board of Supervisors’ meeting. Starting off the meeting was Marty Wymore of Region 6 Resource Partners, who spoke to the supervisors about the senior public ...
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, Nov. 13, 2024. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County office will host a Fumigation Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial and private pesticide applicators on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education ...