TAMA – Flanked by Rep. Derek Wulf (R-Hudson), Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, a fellow Republican, took a tour of the Iowa Premium Beef plant in Tama with General Manager Jon Surman last Friday morning and learned more about successes and challenges at the facility, which currently ...
TOLEDO – Tama County needs a new zoning and planning administrator. During the Tama County Board of Supervisors’ April 8 meeting, the board accepted Marshall County’s termination of the two counties’ shared zoning contract. Last fall the counties entered into a 28E agreement for ...
TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Master Gardeners will be distributing free tree seedlings at the Tama County Extension and Outreach office at 203 W. High St. in Toledo on Saturday, May 4 beginning at 10 a.m. and going until 125 trees are distributed, or noon – whichever comes first. They will ...
TOLEDO – Rows and rows of citizens sat eagerly awaiting the 15 minutes of public comment time to express their opinions on the agenda during last Monday’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting, with one even telecommuting to have his say. The agenda item that caused such a stir was a ...
IOWA – Amid increasing scrutiny of a potential link between Iowa farm chemicals and cancer, a new report is generating controversy as it blames rising cancer rates not on the toxins used widely throughout the state, but on something else entirely: binge alcohol consumption. The Iowa Cancer ...
A total solar eclipse was visible from the United States this past Monday, April 8. While Iowa was not in the path of totality which stretched from Texas to Maine in a narrow band, the state did experience somewhere between 70 to 85 percent of the eclipse depending on location. The peak ...
DYSART – Tama Benton Cooperative is sponsoring a Community Shred Day event on Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to noon (or until the truck is filled). This free, drive-through drop-off will take place at their Dysart Office located at 504 Estelle St. and is open to community members and ...
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the much discussed Area Education Agencies (AEA) reform bill into law last Wednesday, March 27, just a day after the Iowa Senate approved the legislation. House File 2612 (HF2612) passed the Senate on March 26 on a 30-18 vote, with Sen. Annette Sweeney (R-Iowa Falls) ...
TOLEDO – Last week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was all about rules and handbooks. But before they got into all that, the supervisors heard the engineer’s report. Contract rock has finished being delivered, and trucks were out clearing roads after last week's bout of snow. ...
TAMA COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in 11 Iowa counties including Tama County from April 15 –17. Iowans seeking assistance with a federal agency or wishing to share their views on issues important to them may stop by during the ...