TOLEDO – As the thunder cracked across the inky black sky and large raindrops fell from the dark clouds above, the team in the Tama County Auditor's office worked with a fervor. Primary votes were being tallied, nails were being chewed, and for the first time in decades, there's a new ...
TRAER – On Wednesday, June 26, beginning at 6:30 p.m., The Parsonage at Ripley UCC (513 Fourth Street, Traer) will host an open mic for the Traer community, featuring Katie Sires of Katie and the Honky Tonks (bio below) and serving free root beer floats. This is part of a new monthly ...
TOLEDO – Following a hearing held last Thursday, accused murderer Huston William Danker’s bond will remain at $1,000,000 as originally set as part of his arrest in late April. On April 29, 2024, Danker, 26, was arrested in Cedar Rapids by the Tama County Sheriff’s Office and charged ...
TRAER – The Traer Community Foundation Board of Directors has announced the 2024 disbursements for a total of $57,391.23 This is the 32nd year of awarding grants. The total of Foundation grants, to the community, now total $1,001,000.00. These are the community betterment projects by ...
IRVINE PRAIRIE – Roughly 60 Union high schoolers from Craig Hemsath’s science classes and Adam Sacquitne’s agriculture classes visited Irvine Prairie north of Dysart on May 22 as part of the annual spring planting day at the Tallgrass Prairie Center’s (TPC) ...
DYSART – Wolf Creek Players is a local theater group. We are sponsoring a week-long theatre camp for anyone age 7 and up! The experienced actors and actresses from the Footliters Traveling Playhouse from Coralville, Iowa, will direct the week. They will bring scripts, costumes, and the set ...
PELLA – Jasmyn Bush of La Porte City was one of 232 Central College students who were celebrated during Commencement 2024 on Saturday, May 11, in the Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium, in Pella, Iowa. Bush earned a bachelor's degree in December 2023 majoring in Kinesiology. Central College ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Aubrey Gates of La Porte City was recently named to the University of Sioux Falls Spring 2024 Dean's List. Gates is majoring in Exercise Science. Gates was among more than 575 students named to the Spring 2024 Dean's List. To qualify, students must be enrolled in at ...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Morningside University has named 250 students as Roadman Scholars in recognition of high academic distinction for the 2023-24 academic year including Dylan W. Hosek of Traer. Roadman Scholars must be full-time students who have completed at least 45 credits of college ...
WEST DES MOINES – Allison Mask of Traer completed the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Des Moines University. The university's commencement ceremony took place on May 24, 2024. Mask will begin a pediatrics residency at the Central Iowa Health System in Des Moines, Iowa.