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Tama County News

The problem of enforcement

TOLEDO – As there was no Board of Supervisors story in last week's paper, there is a double whammy in this week's edition. Due to Memorial Day, last week's meeting was pushed back to the morning of Thursday, May 29. All supervisors were present including David Turner, who telecommuted via ...

Salt Creek files for emergency injunction from purported construction stay

Telegraph Note: After this story went to press, Judge Cox denied Salt Creek Wind's May 30 application for an emergency injunction without prejudice, writing on May 31: "The Court denies without prejudice as these issues can be remedied by the Plaintiffs. The Court suggests the parties discuss ...

‘Secure to us evermore the peace for which our comrades died’

CLUTIER – Seventy years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed Memorial Day as a day of “nationwide prayer for permanent peace.” This past Monday, American Legion posts including those in Clutier and Dysart held services and ceremonies to honor and mourn the more than 1 million ...

News and notes from the Tama County Board of Supervisors

TOLEDO – Dodging raindrops, the usual congregation of citizens and elected officials met for the weekly Supervisors meeting on Monday, May 19. The meeting began with a long discussion between the supervisors and Economic Development Director Katherine Ollendieck. The discourse on the ...

Fresh produce voucher program for kids coming to Toledo Farmers Market

TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Tama County is returning with a free kids program: Power of Produce Club (PoP Club) at the 2025 Toledo Farmers’ Market. This program was created at the Oregon City, Oregon, farmers market in 2011. Due to its success, it has spread ...

Remembering the fallen 50 years later

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth and seventh stories in a series of nine first published by the Times-Republican newspaper honoring the 32 men from Grundy, Hardin, Marshall and Tama counties who perished during the Vietnam War including one man considered as missing-in-action. From Nov. 1, ...

‘I suspect it’s going to be different’

Editor's Note: This story will publish in the Friday, May 23, edition of the North Tama Telegraph. OTTER CREEK LAKE – Tama County’s new naturalist and an alleged lack of programming dominated public comment during the Wednesday, May 7 meeting of the Board of Conservation. “On March ...