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Tama County News

Revelry at the punch bowl

TRAER - America's strongest drink will be mixed up on Saturday, November 11, in Traer. Frontlines United Inc., a local nonprofit that was started just last February, is the force behind the event entitled The Punch Bowl. The Punch Bowl ceremony was suggested by a local friend of Frontlines ...

A little mixup on Historical Society lease

TOLEDO – The biggest thing on the agenda for the Oct. 23 meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors was the discussion of the Tama County Historical Society's lease on their building. Or was it? The original lease for the building, drafted in 1973, was good for 50 years which would ...

Satellite voters in Traer set single-day county record

TRAER – Last week Wednesday, voters in the North Tama County Community School District set a Tama County record at the Traer Memorial Building for the most ballots processed during a satellite vote. "They did have record turnout yesterday. They processed 182 satellite voters,” Karen ...

Cooking With Fresh Herbs class set for Traer on Nov. 8

Do you enjoy growing herbs, but would like some new ideas about how to cook with them? Join Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County as we explore ways to cook with fresh herbs from 2-4 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8 at the Traer Public Library. Learn to identify 10 different ...

‘Bird Friendly’ resolution doesn’t fly

TOLEDO – During the October 16 Tama County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, birds were the main subject of debate. A resolution was on the docket to designate Tama County as a Bird Friendly Iowa community – a statewide program supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to promote ...

Hosek, Dieleman awarded Tama SWCD scholarships

Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Dylan Hosek of rural Traer and Abe (Douglas) Dieleman of rural Toledo have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dylan is a North Tama graduate ...

Iowa Outdoors: After 49 years, moose makes its way back to Tama County

Forty-nine years ago a three-year-old bull moose weighing about 1,500 pounds and having an antler spread greater than three feet across was poached in Tama County. That moose is now back and once again calls Tama County home. Anyone old enough who resided here nearly 50 years ago should ...

Fishing regulations to be relaxed at Casey Lake in Tama County

TAMA COUNTY — Starting October 4, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) relaxed the fishing regulations at Casey Lake in Hickory Hills Park to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish before the lake is renovated. The goal of the lake restoration project is to improve water quality ...

Traer native pledges $25 million to UNI, largest in school history

CEDAR FALLS – A historic gift to the University of Northern Iowa will mark a new chapter in the university’s renowned business college. David Wilson, a 1966 graduate of North Tama High School and 1970 graduate of UNI who now lives in Nevada, has pledged a $25 million donation that will ...

Area farmers take to the fields amid historic drought conditions

CLUTIER – The view from the cab of Tom Dvorak’s Gleaner S77 combine as he harvested corn in the undulating hills west of Clutier last Tuesday afternoon could not be beat. “This is our hilliest farm,” Dvorak said with a slight chuckle while expertly navigating one of the 100-acre ...