TRAER – Stellar student-athletes were honored this past August during North Tama’s annual Redhawk Recognition ceremony. Four awards recognizing outstanding freshman/sophomore and junior/senior athletic achievement were given out as part of the ceremony including the Kent Vesley and Tonja ...
Clean Energy Districts of Iowa (CEDI), a nonprofit consortium of Energy Districts based in 13 counties in Iowa including Tama County, is offering free energy coaching to assist farms and small businesses in applying for USDA grant funding for renewable energy or energy efficiency improvement ...
September will be a special month because after several months with no planets in the evening sky, there will now be two. Early in the month, Saturn will be at its highest and brightest as Earth in its faster orbit passes it. Saturn will rise in the east as the Sun sets in the west, and it will ...
MARSHALLTOWN – Marshalltown Community College is pleased to announce the Summer 2024 graduates, a group of students who have shown remarkable perseverance and achievement. This summer's graduating class reflects MCC's commitment to providing a supportive and enriching educational environment, ...
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 ...