DYSART – The Dysart Garden Club recently named Lynda Robison’s charming urban acreage on Estelle Street as the club’s ‘Blue Ribbon Flowers of the Month’ for August – a designation Robison both welcomes and finds bittersweet as this is the first growing season in more than four ...
TRAER – As she enters her 11th season as head North Tama volleyball coach, Channing Halstead is poised, ready, determined, hungry – all the adjectives – to take her girls to the pinnacle this year for the first time in school history by playing for the Class 1A state tournament ...
TOLEDO – Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to February of 2025. On July 30, Assistant Attorney General Michael H. Ringle filed a motion for a continuance of the 10-day jury trial which had been set to begin Oct. 1 of this year. The State asked for the date ...
TRAER – Pied Piper Preschool and Child Care in Traer has been keeping a big project under wraps for some time now but with funding mostly addressed and plans well in motion, the center’s leadership is ready to ‘slide’ into the big reveal. “We’ve been slowly building the plan. ...
LA PORTE CITY – The Union Community School District Board of Education has approved a $20.5 million bond referendum that will appear on the ballot Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Petitions asking the board to place the bond question on the ballot circulated in the communities in recent weeks. After ...
DES MOINES – Olivia Hanson, the 2024 Benton County Fair Queen and a member of Union High School’s Class of 2024, was one of seven finalists this year in the Iowa State Fair Queen pageant, ultimately earning the Outstanding Leadership award. Hanson competed alongside 102 other young women ...
TRAER – The 2024 McKenna Reunion for the families of the late Charles and Clara McKenna was held on Sunday, Aug. 4, at Taylor Park in Traer. Thirty-four family members attended the potluck dinner. Our president this year, Charlie McKenna led a meeting after dinner. Stephanie Buchanan will be ...
TOLEDO — George and Virginia Kunch left a legacy when they donated their 162-acre family farm in Tama County to the people of Iowa in 2005. Gone are the buildings, cottonwood trees and ag fields. In their place is a diverse reconstructed prairie with wild bergamot, prairie blazing star, cup ...
TOLEDO – On a drizzly rainy Monday morning last week, the usual suspects started their week by gathering for the Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. After 15 minutes of absolute silence where no one had a public comment, the Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, kicked off the meeting ...
GRUNDY CENTER — Grundy County Memorial Hospital is offering two sessions of the “Welcome to Medicare” seminar, aimed at those who have questions about Medicare health insurance benefits or are approaching Medicare eligibility and need information about how to enroll. The free seminar is ...