LA PORTE CITY – On Monday, May 5, the La Porte City Women’s Club is sponsoring Cinco de Mayo dinner and style show. Social hour begins at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. with the style show to follow. The Mexican dinner includes chips with salsa, guacamole, and queso; chicken enchilada with ...
TOLEDO – Tama County Public Health & Home Care (TCPH&HC) recently received $19,203.60 for Stop the Bleed (STB) kits from Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) funding for emergency and response through the Central Iowa Health Care Coalition. The grant funds are being ...
TRAER - The Traer Chamber of Commerce hosted the community's annual Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April 19, in Taylor Park. Chamber members stuffed and hid 1,000 colorful plastic eggs this year for children aged 0-10 to collect. The event was well attended thanks to sunny skies although there ...
Telegraph Note: This story will publish in the Friday, May 2 print edition of the newspaper. TOLEDO – And then there were four. Last week, Tama County added two more lawsuits to its docket, bringing the total number of petitions filed against the County in recent months to at least four. ...
Arbor Day is a national holiday that recognizes the importance of trees. It is celebrated on the last Friday of April – today, April 25 – and is commemorated by planting trees. Arbor Day is credited to Julious Sterling Morton, a zealous lover of trees, who settled on 160 acres of ...
LA PORTE CITY, IA — Residents of the Union Community School District recently provided feedback on the general obligation bond that was on the ballot in November 2024 and sought voter approval for a series of facility improvement projects. The anonymous survey was available March 17-30 and ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Community Foundation (TCCF) held its 2025 grant awards celebration at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo on April 10, announcing the distribution of $181,754.01 to 33 projects of organizations serving Tama County through its 2025 grant cycle. Grant recipient, ...
DYSART – The Dysart Pickleball Organization (DPO) along with city leaders and local contractors held a groundbreaking ceremony for the City’s new pickleball courts on Tuesday, April 15, in Dysart City Park following a race to the finish by DPO members to secure more than $50,000 in ...
DYSART – The Dysart Historical Society will hold its annual meeting and a program on Sunday, April 27, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Agriculture Museum. Following the brief annual meeting, Roy Behrens of Dysart will present a program on interesting, little known bits of Iowa history. He will be ...
TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Master Gardeners will be in two communities on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to noon (or as quantities last) distributing native tree seedlings to the public. Stop by the Tama Library in Tama or the TMU parking lot in Traer to receive two seedlings per household at ...