TOLEDO – Tama County Public Health is pleased to introduce two new staff members, Tammy Schuett and Melanie Blocker. Tammy Schuett Tammy Schuett is Tama County Public Health & Home Care’s new LPN. She is taking on the department’s new Public Health Nursing position. Tammy has ...
TOLEDO – Tama County Supporting Kids in Prevention (SKIP) will be hosting an informational meeting on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo beginning at 6 p.m. as part of the 2025 Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative which is scheduled for Jan. 13-17, 2025, this year in ...
TOLEDO - Carols, poems, pianos, guitars, readings, soups, sweets and so much more were bursting out at the Wieting Theater last Saturday. An idea community member and former News Chronicle Editor Darvin Graham had for some time finally came into reality. With the help of his wife Allison ...
TOLEDO – Two new members were appointed to the Tama County Board of Adjustment during the Dec. 16 supervisors meeting. As a fog lay lifeless in the sky like a raccoon on the side of the highway, the usual group of local government spectators cut through the wet, dreary morning to attend the ...
January will be a special month with several interesting events. Brilliant Venus will be unmistakable at its highest point in the sky and setting after it is fully dark. Although Venus will be moving eastward in its orbit, from our perspective it will appear to be almost motionless while the ...
PELLA – Andrea Dvorak of Clutier has been named to Central College's Fall 2024 Dean's List. Dvorak, Class of 2026, is among the 411 students named to the Fall Dean's List. To qualify for this honor, students must earn a 3.5 GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale while taking 12 or more graded credit ...
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA – Aubrey Gates of La Porte City was recently named to the University of Sioux Falls Fall 2024 Dean's List. Gates is majoring in Exercise Science. Gates was among 550 students named to the Fall 2024 Dean's List. To qualify, students must be enrolled in at least 12 ...
CLUTIER – While the ice storm that covered much of Iowa in slick roads and thick fog last weekend was not as bad as had been predicted for Tama County, several area holiday events scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 14, including Clutier ZCBJ Lodge’s annual ‘Deck the Hall’ event were ...
MARSHALLTOWN – Jim Coppoc’s life has taken him in several seemingly discordant directions, but his passions have always guided him along the way. The new musically focused activities assistant in the Ulery memory care unit at the Iowa Veterans Home, who also pastors Ripley United Church ...