TRAER – The non-profit, community-supported Traer Theatre is back and ready for the holiday season with a new Sunday matinee! The theater’s December lineup offers a great holiday list of family movies for all to enjoy including “The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever” playing Dec. ...
DYSART –Dysart’s Christmas on Main – the Dysart Development Corporations’ annual kickoff to the holiday season – was held on Saturday, Dec. 7, and, according to event organizers, was another huge success. While Santa and Mrs. Claus were in attendance at the community building mostly ...
CLUTIER – The Auxiliary did not have a December meeting. January 7, 2025, will be a sewing day beginning at 9 a.m. We will sew lap quilts for Veterans and cut grocery bags for crocheting into sleep mats. Potluck lunch at noon. Monthly meeting in the afternoon. If weather may be an issue, ...
TOLEDO – After waking up to a county blanketed in a dove white fluffy coating of snow, the usual Monday morning group of government conscious citizens sullied the fallen snowflakes with their footprints as they came out to attend last week's supervisors meeting. Tama County Engineer Ben ...
December will be an interesting month in the sky. Brilliant Venus will be unmistakable, shining in a fully dark sky. It will set about three hours after the Sun in early December, and it will climb even higher before it starts to descend in late January. Saturn will rule southwestern sky where ...
WAVERLY – Karsyn Miller has been accepted into the Wartburg College Teacher Education Program. Miller, of La Porte City, had to demonstrate effective reflective components in teaching and complete several other requirements to be considered for the program. Admission to the Teacher ...
IOWA – Nearly 10,000 members of MEMBERS1st Community Credit Union will receive between $5-$500 in December, as their portion of a bonus dividend (also known as patronage dividend) distribution taking place December 15. The decision to distribute a bonus dividend totaling more than $175,000 ...
Now that Thanksgiving, the traditional end to Iowa’s construction season, has come and gone, it’s time to reflect on a big highway milestone that passed with zero fanfare. In fact, its exact date could have gone unknown had the author not been driving to Des Moines at the right ...
TRAER – On Nov. 10, 2024, the community gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of local youth at the annual 4-H awards program held at the Traer Memorial Building. The event recognized the hard work, creativity, and leadership skills of 4-H members who have made significant ...
TRAER – Many of the older buildings on Second Street in Traer have prism glass in the transom windows, above the main windows. Some of the glass is from the 3-Way Prism Company in Chicago, Ill. The 3-Way prisms are a form of window glass, scientifically arranged so as to gather light from ...