GLADBROOK – For the first time in many years, Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) alumna Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru no longer wears a tiara and she’s ok with that. Over a year ago, Bru, who hails from a farm in rural Gladbrook and graduated from GMG last May, was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen ...
WEST DES MOINES – Cordt Holub of Tama County has been named a semi-finalist in the Iowa Farm Bureau’s Young Farmer Conference Discussion Meet. Unlike a debate, the Discussion Meet promotes an exchange of ideas and explores solutions to key challenges facing agriculture. Participants are ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “Roots to Rivers: Exploring the Connection Between Soil Health and Water Quality.” It will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center, 1007 S. Prospect Drive in Toledo, Iowa, 9 ...
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, March 5, 2025. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety ...
IOWA CITY – More than 8,700 students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean's list for the 2024 fall semester including the following students local to the Telegraph area. –Ellie Behrens, Clutier –Kaitlyn Brustkern, La Porte City –Molly Clark, La Porte City –Emma ...
Editor's note: This story will print in the Friday, Feb. 21 edition of the North Tama Telegraph. TRAER - MEMBERS1st Community Credit Union is proud to announce two $1,000 donations to support local initiatives in Traer. The credit union recently contributed to Christian Hands Across Traer ...
MARSHALLTOWN — In the 17 years that she has owned and operated La Salud Restaurant and Grocery Store in downtown Marshalltown, Gabriela Vargas has been open seven days a week, 365 days a year, only closing early occasionally on a few holidays. That changed this past Monday. Vargas and a ...
MARSHALLTOWN – A Traer-Clutier High School Class of 1962 graduate who spent his formative years in rural Buckingham and placed public service above self was laid to rest on Friday, Jan. 24, at the Marietta Cemetery west of Marshalltown. Dan Brandt, 80, of Marshalltown died Jan. 15 in ...
TOLEDO – A crowded room greeted members of the Tama County Zoning Commission on Wednesday, Jan. 29, during their first meeting since the Board of Supervisors enacted tandem wind and solar moratoriums on Jan. 6. And while very little action was taken during the nearly 90-minute meeting, ...
TOLEDO – As the sun stretched and yawned and rose in the east to shine down on another chilly winter day, the usual faces gathered for the Monday, Jan. 27 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The meeting started, like it often does, with the engineer's report. The main point of ...