TOLEDO - The fallout from the controversial firing of former Tama County Human Resources Manager and Insurance Administrator Tammy Wise continued on Monday, Feb. 10, as the board of supervisors once again discussed reassigning the duties of the HR department at the top of the agenda. After ...
TRAER – Members of the Schmitt family are recommending the current crop of senior Redhawks take a serious look at Coe College in Cedar Rapids in light of the new, renewable Herink Family/North Tama Dollars for Scholars Scholarship. Kylee (Schmitt) Pusteoska “Going to a small liberal ...
TOLEDO – Did you know that Iowa has a unique funding source for free or low-cost annual testing of private wells? Or that some water pollutants are odorless, tasteless and will not be removed by boiling water? If you’re curious about the answers to these questions, then take advantage of ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County will host a Certified Handlers Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) on Wednesday, March 12. The program, provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP), is available at office locations ...
TRAER – Members of Traer’s American Legion Auxiliary Post 142 spent Valentine's Day last Friday afternoon with residents of Sunrise Hill Care Center. Together they played bingo, enjoyed ice cream sundaes, and made handcrafted Valentines.
CORALVILLE – For All-American Jillian ‘Monster’ Worthen, last week’s girls state wrestling tournament ended on a triple high with the Union High School senior taking home her third state wrestling title – a feat that places her among the best of the best wrestlers in not only the ...
Editor’s note: “Leather works” by Telegraph reporter Ruby McAllister took home a top prize in the 2025 Iowa Better Newspaper Contest during the Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) Convention held on Feb. 6 this year. The feature story about Robert Backes’ BobLarry Custom Leather shop ...
TOLEDO – Last Monday (Feb. 3) in a vote of 3-2, the Tama County Board of Supervisors terminated the county’s longtime human resources manager while also beginning the difficult work of addressing a looming nearly $1 million budget shortfall. During the latter part of the meeting which ...
DES MOINES – The Times-Republican (T-R) and the Tama-Grundy newspapers took home a total of eight first-place awards across editorial, photography, website, and advertising categories during the annual Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) awards banquet held at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines ...
GLADBROOK – For the first time in many years, Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) alumna Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru no longer wears a tiara and she’s ok with that. Over a year ago, Bru, who hails from a farm in rural Gladbrook and graduated from GMG last May, was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen ...