TRAER – In the end the decision was quick and without much fanfare. During the Monday, Nov. 18 regular monthly meeting of the North Tama school board, a majority of members decided the time had finally come to drop from Class A varsity football to 8-Player. Following a very brief ...
Telegraph note: This story was first published by the newspaper Edgerton Enterprise (based in Edgerton, Minn.) in June of 2024 and is being republished here, with permission, as a courtesy to our readers. Note from the author: When the Edgerton/Ellsworth Flying Dutchmen football team ...
TOLEDO – As the morning frost fought a losing battle against the rising sun of the new day, locals stretched, yawned, and made their way to the Nov. 12 meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors. Held on Tuesday due to the Veterans Day holiday, the meeting started off like it does most ...
TRAER – Members of the North Tama Class of 1969 celebrated their 55th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival held in early August. Those pictured include, first row (seated l-r): Anne (Hatton) Dengler, Janet (Beenken) McKenna, Deb (Hladik) Halupnick, Judy (Mundt) Burghart, Sue ...
TRAER - North Tama County Community School District held a Veterans Day breakfast and program on Monday, Nov. 11. High school students along with K-12 Principal Taylor Howard and high school history teacher Quentin Lamb served close to 40 people in the MPR beginning at 7:50 a.m., after ...
CORALVILLE — The North Tama volleyball team opened the state tournament at Xtream Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in heartbreaking fashion – falling to No. 4 Riverside in the Class 1A quarterfinals after what had been a glorious regional run. Fifth-seeded North Tama started hot, fell behind, ...
DYSART – The City of Dysart is one step closer to building a new public works facility. In mid-April of this year, Dysart City Hall received word their Black Hawk County Gaming Association grant application for $25,000 toward a new public works maintenance shop had been approved. One ...
GARWIN — Good things take time. When he was a freshman at Garwin High School, Orlyn Langenbau, who graduated in 1950 and went on to serve in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1956, noticed that there wasn’t a flag pole at the Garwin Union Cemetery just northeast of town and decided he ...
LA PORTE CITY – Following the narrow failure of Union Community School District’s $20.5 million bond referendum on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Superintendent John Howard sent a letter to district families. The letter is printed in full below. Dear Families, I want to thank our community members for ...