×

Tama County News

Tama County American Legion and Auxiliary to hold flag disposal

CLUTIER – The Tama County American Legion and Auxiliary will meet on Tuesday, June 23, at the Clutier Legion Hall. There will be a potluck at 6 p.m. followed by a flag disposal ceremony. Following the flag disposal, the meeting of the joint Legion and Auxiliary will take place. If anyone has ...

‘O blessed Lady of the fields, who loved the rural folk’

RURAL CLUTIER – As the sound of hymns sung by some 150 parishioners escaped the slightly ajar doors to rural Clutier’s St. Wenceslaus Oratory last Sunday, June 7, the Prince of Peace (Catholic) Cluster celebrated the annual Corpus Christi Mass and procession for the first time under ...

The Stories of Our Lives: Lincoln, Iowa

This article first appeared in the Sun Courier newspaper and is dedicated to the citizens of Lincoln, past and present. It describes what it was like to live in that community during the author’s formative years (the 1950s). If the stories of our past are not shared, they will vanish with ...

The 290th bunch

TOLEDO – There was a lot of conversation, but not a lot of action at the Monday, June 1 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Everything kicked off with multiple residents of 290th Street expressing concerns about dust control on their road. The 290th bunch said they had a deal with ...

Clutier Legion post spends Memorial Day morning saluting fallen comrades

CLUTIER — “Let us turn out and show,” said the Toledo Chronicle in 1878, “that we honor and revere the memory of those who have passed over to ‘Fame’s eternal Camping ground’ and joined ‘the bivouac of the dead.’” In 2026, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence ...

Cheers to 70 years!

TRAER – The Geneseo Consolidated School Class of 1956 celebrated their 70th graduation anniversary on Saturday, May 16, in the Family Dining Room at Sunrise Hill Care Center in Traer. Five class members and four spouses attended. Two class members and one spouse were unable to attend. The ...

A swift meeting

TOLEDO – On a warm Tuesday, May 26, the usual partygoers filed into the Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting room refreshed from the long Memorial Day weekend. Supervisor Curt Kupka was absent, so the supervisors skipped over the road projects report. The supervisors then went on to ...