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, ...
BUCKINGHAM – Returning to the family farm was something Carolyn Adolphs wanted to do, but she didn’t realize it would happen when it did — after the tragic death of her parents in 1983. They had purchased the farm in 1952 and she and her husband, Ken, took over the farm in 1984. The ...
MELBOURNE – Join Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) for its upcoming event, “Fall Social: Buzzed Bee Meadery.” It will be held on Thursday, September 14 at Buzzed Bee Meadery, 1755 340th Street, rural Melbourne in neighboring Marshall County. The event will begin promptly at 6 ...
September will be an interesting month in the sky. Although the planets that were in the western evening sky are gone, Saturn will be present all night, and very bright Jupiter will rise at about 10:30 p.m. as September begins and 8:30 at the end of the month. It will be high in the south by ...
BUCKINGHAM - In an update to an earlier story, the Tama County Sheriff's Office this afternoon released the name of the individual who was discovered deceased on Monday, Aug. 14, near a rural Tama County residence east of Buckingham that had exploded and caught fire earlier that same morning. ...
TOLEDO – The biggest issue discussed at last Monday's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was the Zoning Commission. Carol Meyer from the Toledo area and Steven Peterson from the Chelsea area were both appointed to the commission during the supervisors’ meeting. The supervisors ...
TOLEDO – At last Monday's meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors, the biggest topic was the new supervisors’ district map. The redistricting board has come up with an unofficial new map that splits Tama County into five districts instead of three. The board split the county into ...
TRAER – Whannel Farm on the western outskirts of Traer is set to host a Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) field day next week focused on creating wildlife habitat on the farm. The event titled ‘Pollinators, Prairie Strips and Oxbows’ will take place on Wednesday, August 23 beginning at ...