TOLEDO – As the sun shone down on a chilly Monday, Oct. 5, locals waltzed through the breeze over crunching leaves to the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The secondary roads department reported dealing with the rain and washouts. They’ve also been hauling rock, mowing, ...
TAMA – St. John Lutheran Church will celebrate 150 years on Sunday, October 18, 2026. The church itself had its beginning in a one room country school house in Columbia Township about 6 1/2 miles southwest of Tama in 1876 by a group of German immigrants. In 1894 after having outgrown ...
IOWA – For the third consecutive year, Iowa’s Water Year ended with a statewide precipitation surplus, according to the latest Water Summary Update. The 2026 Iowa Water Year, which covers October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026, concluded with a statewide precipitation surplus of 2.82 ...
TAMA – The Tama County Democratic Central Committee will host a candidate meet and greet Tuesday, Oct. 20, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Tama Ballroom located at 1411 E. Fifth Street, Tama. Candidates slated to attend as of presstime include John Norwood of West Des Moines who is running for ...
TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Treasurer Amanda Kriegel will seek another term through a write-in campaign after falling short of the Republican nomination earlier this year. Kriegel announced the decision on her campaign Facebook page late last month, setting up another general election contest ...
TAMA – Independent congressional candidate Dave Bushaw spent about an hour and a half making his case for a different kind of politics while visiting Tama County on Saturday, Sept. 26, frequently turning the conversation back to the people sitting around the table. Bushaw, the no-party ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Elberon man who threatened to shoot up a community event and who sent multiple people threatening messages featuring guns was sentenced Sept. 30 to more than six years in federal prison. Daniel Scott Carter, 42, of Elberon, received the prison term after a May 1, 2026, ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University and Outreach Tama County office will host an Ornamental and Turfgrass Pest Control Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators Wednesday, Nov. 4. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education ...
TOLEDO – Under an early morning gray sky, a few citizens had enough energy and gumption to venture out into the dreary morning and make it to the Monday, Sept. 28 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. While the public comment time had its own interesting moments, as a representative from ...
TOLEDO – Roughly five weeks out from Election Day, with polling increasingly turning in his favor, State Auditor Rob Sand, the Democratic nominee for governor, likes the view. “Pretty good view to sing that song to, isn’t it? Look out the windows here. Hats off to Tama County. You guys ...