Democratic candidate for Iowa Senate District 27 Sam Cox visited Tama County on August 27 to personally doorknock for her campaign in the communities of Tama and Toledo. “I’m the new kid on the block here. I realize there has to be new players all the time. I don’t have as much ...
The North Tama school district’s facility improvement project took another step forward recently as the school board approved a motion to hire an Independence firm to act as the Construction Manager at-Risk (CMaR) for the district. Using the CMaR project delivery model versus the more ...
Over 500 K-12th graders participated in summer 4-H programs in Tama County and we want to say thank you! A huge thank you to our partnerships with the Tama, Toledo, Traer, Dysart, Chelsea and Garwin libraries. Thank you to Tama County Conservation for their partnership with Critter Camp and ...
A nailbiter of a debut as the top-ranked volleyball team in Class 1A didn’t carry for North Tama. Instead the Redhawks played their best yet, even though they had to settle for second place. North Tama knocked off HLV, Independence and 2A No. 12 Grundy Center in pool play before fighting ...
When word began to spread in late August that the semi-private, 9-hole La Porte City Golf Club would be shuttering effective Sept. 10 and put up for sale without community intervention, a group of La Porte City residents including attorneys Matt Craft and Corey Lorenzen quickly got to work to ...
The 3A No. 9 Union Knights girls volleyball team played with fierce tenacity during last Saturday’s tournament at North Tama by taking down the 1A No. 3 Gladbrook-Reinbeck Rebels, 2-0, in their opening match-up. The Knights rode that high all the way to the Championship bracket – placing ...
It was a ceremony that would have made the late Iowa conservationist Aldo Leopold proud. This past Thursday evening just north of Montour along the Iowa River, a small group of land stewards including local members of Marshall/Tama County Pheasants Forever officially dedicated the new, ...
Iowans can now begin requesting absentee ballots for the November general election, Secretary of State Paul Pate announced. State law allows Iowans to request absentee ballots beginning 70 days before an election. County auditors will begin mailing absentee ballots to those that requested them ...
The Clutier ZCBJ Lodge held its annual free bike giveaway at Clutier Fun Day on Saturday, August 6. The bicycle was donated by BetterLife as a Lodge community project for youths. The winner was Emmary Mullen of Clutier (pictured). The ZCBJ Lodge partnered with Standing for Clutier and Bohemian ...
Traer United Presbyterian Church (UPC) is sponsoring an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday, September 8 at Traer Memorial Building from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Help save a life. Give blood. For more information, contact UPC at 319-478-2742.