Arbor Day is a national holiday that recognizes the importance of trees. It is celebrated on the last Friday of April – today, April 25 – and is commemorated by planting trees. Arbor Day is credited to Julious Sterling Morton, a zealous lover of trees, who settled on 160 acres of ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Community Foundation (TCCF) held its 2025 grant awards celebration at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo on April 10, announcing the distribution of $181,754.01 to 33 projects of organizations serving Tama County through its 2025 grant cycle. Grant recipient, ...
TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Master Gardeners will be in two communities on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to noon (or as quantities last) distributing native tree seedlings to the public. Stop by the Tama Library in Tama or the TMU parking lot in Traer to receive two seedlings per household at ...
May will be an exciting month in the sky. As May begins, brilliant Venus and bright Saturn will be close together low in the eastern predawn sky with Mercury near the eastern horizon and probably hard to spot without binoculars. As the month progresses, Mercury will drop quickly toward the Sun, ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present “Living with a Live Owl” on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Licensed falconer Brenda Smith will introduce you to Athena, her two-year-old great horned owl. Smith will begin training ...
TOLEDO – Learn all the basics of baking with a sourdough starter at a Sourdough Workshop on May 29 at 6 p.m. The workshop will be offered at the Tama County Iowa State University Extension and Outreach office in Toledo. Holly Van Heel, a human sciences educator with ISU Extension and ...
TOLEDO – On Wednesday, April 9, Tama County’s American Legion posts and Auxiliary units hosted the 68th Tama County Government Day, welcoming high school seniors from area school districts to Toledo as part of an annual effort to teach students the importance of county government. As in ...
CLUTIER – A member of the Clutier Fire Department was injured last month when a loaded tanker truck blew a tire and subsequently rolled into the ditch while en route to a grass fire east of town. On Saturday, March 22, at 5:40 p.m., the Tama County Sheriff’s Department responded to an ...
MARSHALLTOWN – The Times-Republican newspaper is seeking information on 32 area men listed as casualties during the Vietnam War. This information will be used to supplement each man’s brief military biography as part of a series of articles beginning April 30 in the T-R and affiliated ...
TOLEDO — The Tama County Democrats will host a public conversation with Matt Russell on leadership and the future vision for rural Iowa on April 22 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theater Event room in Toledo. Russell will join with concerned citizens to discuss current events in the ...