DES MOINES – On Monday, Sept. 11, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain, fertilizer, and manure. The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through October 11, 2023. The proclamation allows vehicles ...
DES MOINES – A record seven separate Tama County farm families were honored on Thursday, August 17, at the Iowa State Fair Livestock Pavilion with 2023 Heritage Farm designations. The seven farms were located throughout the northern Tama County landscape and include Abernathey Family Farms ...
DES MOINES – Tama County 4-H and FFA members exhibits were on display in the 4-H and FFA Exhibits Building at the Iowa State Fair this year. Divisions young people may exhibit in include agriculture and natural resources, creative arts, family and consumer sciences, personal ...
BELLE PLAINE – For those who drive on Hwy 21 south of Dysart, some welcome changes to the route took place last week with the opening of the new Hwy 21 interchange at U.S. 30. The interchange was built as a part of ongoing construction projects to widen U.S. 30 to four lanes between Tama ...
TOLEDO – Last week's supervisors’ meeting went by rather quickly, without any fireworks going off. Chairman Bill Faircloth was absent, so District 1 Supervisor Curt Hilmer once again had the reins. Hilmer stumbled and tumbled a bit when it came to the monotonous particulars of ...
Representatives of nonprofits, governmental entities and school districts are encouraged to register for Grant Writing 101, an online workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, October 3. Grant Writing 101 is a workshop created by ISU Extension and Outreach Community and Economic ...
MONTOUR — Montour is one of the oldest and proudest communities in Tama County, and on Sept. 9, a special celebration will be held to commemorate the 150-year anniversary of the incorporation of the town under its current name. Last week, three members of the Montour Area Community Club ...
Overall dryness in Iowa expanded the last week of August amid unrelenting heat and a lack of rainfall and is now worse than it’s been since March 2013, according to a recent report by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought conditions eclipsed their previous worst of this year, which occurred in ...
UNION GROVE LAKE – Controversy surrounding payouts the Tama County Board of Health attempted to make this past July to two homeowners whose septics were improperly passed by the previous sanitarian continues to leach consequences, having now ensnared a former homeowner in a possible lawsuit ...
TOLEDO – It’s been at least seven years since folks in Tama County last heard about a Silver Lake, Indiana resident named Elvis Allison and his alleged home improvement scams on local elderly residents, but it seems movement in the case has finally reignited. Back in February of 2016, ...