MILFORD – Tama County 4-H youth earned top finishes at the Iowa 4-H State Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) Contest held April 11 at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in rural Milford. The Tama Turkeys (Jude Grismer, Gabriel Grismer, and Wyatt Upah) captured first place in the junior team ...
TRAER – High school and middle school members of St. Paul Catholic Parish’s Faith Formation class along with members of the North Tama Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) chapter spent a recent Wednesday evening cleaning up the yards of several older community members as part of an ...
LA PORTE CITY – The Union Community School District’s proposed property tax levy rate for fiscal year 2027 is 3.18% lower than the previous year. The proposed rate of $11.404 per $1,000 of taxable property value for FY27 continues a trend of declining rates at Union CSD in recent years. ...
MARSHALLTOWN – A group of about 20 local leaders including elected officials, business executives and representatives from the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce and Alliant Energy started Thursday, April 23 with a jolt as they toured ITC Midwest’s Marshalltown Substation and discussed ...
TOLEDO — In order to get mass media to the masses, local reporters and station operators spent the middle of the 20th century experimenting and innovating. Jeff Stein of KXEL-AM brought his presentation “Making Waves: The People and Places of Iowa Broadcasting” to a small audience April ...
CLUTIER – The Hora-Machacek Unit 453 of the American Legion Auxiliary met on April 7 in Clutier with Vice-President Linda calling the meeting to order at 1:40 p.m. There were five members present – Collette Wiebbecke, Linda Dvorak, Julia Babinat, Margaret Babinat and Diane Caloud. The ...
The Tama County Legion Auxiliary Convention was held in Traer Legion Hall on April 22, 1957. A flag ceremony presented the flags of each of the 11 local Legion Auxiliary units. The program included a memorial ceremony by the Clutier group; reports from the president of each local unit, a ...
GLADBROOK – The Tama County Pork Producers made four recent donations to local Tama County food pantries as part of Iowa Pork’s Pork in the Pantry initiative. Per a social media post March 31, “The Tama County Pork Producers donated 120 lbs of ground pork and $600 worth of pork ...
TOLEDO — After months of ups and downs, a plan of decertification for Tama County Home Care was approved as part of the Monday, April 20 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Supervisor Curt Hilmer (R-Dysart) talked about the decision and the last Public Health meeting he attended. ...
AMES – A total of 18 La Porte-Dysart FFA members joined FFA chapters from across Iowa for the 98th Iowa FFA Leadership Conference April 19-21 at Iowa State University’s Hilton Coliseum in Ames. The Iowa FFA State Leadership Conference is one the largest of its kind in the National FFA ...