TOLEDO — George and Virginia Kunch left a legacy when they donated their 162-acre family farm in Tama County to the people of Iowa in 2005. Gone are the buildings, cottonwood trees and ag fields. In their place is a diverse reconstructed prairie with wild bergamot, prairie blazing star, cup ...
TOLEDO – On a drizzly rainy Monday morning last week, the usual suspects started their week by gathering for the Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. After 15 minutes of absolute silence where no one had a public comment, the Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, kicked off the meeting ...
GRUNDY CENTER — Grundy County Memorial Hospital is offering two sessions of the “Welcome to Medicare” seminar, aimed at those who have questions about Medicare health insurance benefits or are approaching Medicare eligibility and need information about how to enroll. The free seminar is ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present “Iowa’s Largest and Tallest Trees” on Wednesday, Sept. 11, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Join big tree hunter Mark Rouw has been searching for the biggest trees in Iowa for nearly 50 ...
DYSART – Law enforcement officers, by the nature of their jobs, often meet people in less than ideal circumstances, but National Night Out – an annual event held in cities across the country on the first Tuesday in August – aims to foster police-community partnerships by bringing them ...
TAMA – As she reiterated near the end of her Women in Ag roundtable at the Tama Civic Center on Tuesday, Aug. 6, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), who grew up in the Des Moines area and now calls Marion home, isn’t a farmer and won’t ever pretend to be one. But the congresswoman, who ...
TOLEDO – The usual bunch congregated for the supervisors meeting last week on a hot Monday morning. The Aug. 5 meeting kicked off with a bit of quiet time during a particularly slow public comment section. Tama County Engineer Ben Daleske had a proxy give the weekly report as he's ...
CHELSEA — On a recent muggy Saturday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) made an appearance in Tama County as part of her River to River tour. Biologists, DNR employees, and Ducks Unlimited stakeholders toured the Otter Creek Marsh. Occupying 3,800 acres outside of Chelsea and ...
Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Dylan Hosek of rural Traer has been selected to receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dylan is a North Tama graduate majoring in Applied Agricultural & Food Studies ...
DES MOINES – After significant localized heavy rainfall and flooding in June, July continued the trend with above-average rainfall, according to the latest Water Summary Update. July’s preliminary statewide precipitation was 5.40 inches, or 1.23 inches above normal. However, ...