All events are free unless otherwise noted. Questions? Call Tama Co. Naturalist Raina Genaw at 641-484-2231 or email rgenaw@tamacounty.org. Friday, July 7: Bug Catching from noon to 2 p.m. at T.F. Clark Park. Catch some bugs and learn about them with a naturalist! Bug nets, containers, ...
TOLEDO - The Tama County Board of Supervisors had a special meeting on Monday, June 5 at noon. The meeting was to discuss possibly merging the jobs of sanitarian, weed commissioner, and zoning commissioner into one and sharing that employee with Marshall County. In attendance were members ...
TOLEDO - The Tama County American Legion and Auxiliary will hold a joint meeting on Tuesday, June 27, at the Toledo Post Home. A potluck meal will start at 6:30 p.m. followed by a Flag Disposal Ceremony at approximately 7 p.m. The joint meeting will be held following the flag disposal.
TOLEDO – The Tama County Board of Health recently found itself in a bit of a mess as it relates to septic transfers, and come July 1 will be on the hook for almost $13,000 in an effort to clean it up. During the board’s March meeting held over Zoom, two separate payments were approved ...
Almost 80 students from Union High School joined forces with staff of the Tallgrass Prairie Center, AmeriCorps service members, and UNI students on May 25 to transplant more than 2,300 native plants at Irvine Prairie located in rural Dysart. Under the direction of TPC staff and Union science ...
The Tama County Fair Association will be holding their annual Fair Challenge during the 2023 Tama County Fair. Anyone is eligible to enter. This year’s theme is “Recycle, Rescue, Restore, or Reuse.” Take any old item and create a unique decoration or functional piece. A ...
TOLEDO - At the May 22 Tama County Supervisors meeting, a new bench for the courthouse lawn was approved. The bench will be granite and in honor of the Toledo Public School. Toledo Public School classes of 1958-1962 are paying for the new bench. The exact location on the courthouse lawn is ...
GARWIN – On Saturday and Sunday, June 3-4, 2023, the Grand Reunion of the Ford Family will be held at the Community Center in Garwin, Iowa. Our ancestors first emigrated to Tama County in the fall of 1861 on land than now joins the town of Garwin. Milton and Adelaide Vincent "Addie" Ford, ...
As much of Tama County’s tapestry of fields begins to turn green this week with young shoots of recently planted corn and beans and oats, a few of those fields were planted by none other than Tama-Grundy Publishing’s own newspaper columnist Sean Dengler who is drafting a new chapter this ...