TOLEDO – During the October meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, a new policy regarding the placement of memorial benches in county parks was approved in the wake of public comments made at previous board meetings. The board unanimously approved the new policy during the ...
When Miguel Tirado’s legs were pinned this summer in a conveyor belt at an Iowa grain co-op, he didn’t think he’d make it home to his wife and daughters 1,300 miles away. “I thought I was going to die there,” said Tirado, 26, of Hidalgo, Texas. For more than 20 minutes on June 30, ...
TOLEDO – Not much was on the Tama County Board of Supervisors’ agenda on October 9. As usual, the Monday meeting started off with the Tama County Engineer giving his weekly report. The engineer said that the work on the Toledo Deer Creek Bridge is going as expected with the dirt crew ...
BUCKINGHAM – Geneseo Methodist Church will host a Soup Supper on Sunday, October 29 from 4-6 p.m. at the church home located at 3127 115th St., Buckingham. All proceeds from the supper’s freewill offering will support the Northeast Iowa Food Bank which serves over 100 agencies in 16 Iowa ...
RURAL DYSART – Irvine Prairie in rural Dysart was featured as part of this year’s annual Roadside Vegetation Conference – a conference organized by UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) for those working in one way or another in county roadside vegetation programs. While most of the ...
TOLEDO – The meeting of the Tama County Supervisors held last Monday, October 2 was over and done with quick. The only item on the agenda was a final voucher for a paving project on E64. The agenda item was signed and approved swiftly. The Tama County Engineer went on to report that ...
The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team (MIYBT) held its monthly meeting on October 1, 2023, at the Marshall County Extension Office. The team was honored to host guest speakers, Iowa State University professors, Dr. Miranda Culbertson and Dr. Brad Skaar. Dr. Culbertson first shared beef genetic ...
CLUTIER – The Clutier, Dysart, and Traer fire departments were able to successfully respond last Friday to a large field fire that ignited northeast of Clutier during harvest. Oneida Township resident Dave Degner, who lives in the 2300 block of V Avenue, said he was out watering some trees ...
NOBLESVILLE, IND. – Willie Nelson and family took the stage near midnight for the final musical set of the 2023 Farm Aid Concert held in Noblesville, Indiana, Sept. 22-23. It was all you could hope for as a conclusion to the two-day event, according to Berleen Wobeter, a Tama County ...
TOLEDO – During several recent Tama County Board of Supervisors meetings, the subject on many people's minds has been redistricting with the supervisors appointing a group of three locals to a board to work on the matter. The redistricting board came up with an unofficial new map that ...