Beginning Monday, May 2, drivers along Iowa Highway 8 in Tama County’s Clark Township encountered a road closure between the junction with Iowa Highway 21 west of Dysart and county road V18 east of Traer. The project was let earlier this year and includes the removal and replacement of an ...
In a fitting end to the nationwide celebration that was Stewardship Week 2022 and in honor of the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day, a pair of ‘tree elves’ from the Tama County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) office – conservation assistant Melody Bro and ...
In the span of less than seven days, the citizen-led group Tama County Against Turbines has managed to do something most politicians nowadays can only dream about – draw the grassroots to a local cause and pack meeting halls in the process. On two separate occasions – first on Tuesday, ...
Two very special visitors made an appearance on the UNI-Tallgrass Prairie Center’s (TPC) Irvine Prairie north of Dysart this past week – fire and the center’s founder, Dr. Daryl Smith. “I’m the old burner,” Smith said with a laugh as he stood in the roadway on Thursday, April 21, ...
From the initial stages of spring fieldwork, to longtime backyard daffodils blooming, to floppy-eared visitors hiding eggs in the local city park – it seems spring has finally begun to take shape. Although it may have been hard to appreciate those signs with snow falling last Wednesday, high ...
Dotted across the rural Iowa landscape – built in gnarly cottonwoods situated along creeks that cut through farm fields – active bald eagle nests are often a well-kept secret among the local farmers and rural residents who wish for nothing more than their nation’s symbol to be left ...
Courtney Chambers, student at Benton Community High School has been chosen by Unit 453, Hora-Mahachek Post of Clutier to attend the annual session of the Iowa American Legion Auxiliary Girls State to be held June 19-24, 2022, on the campus of Drake University, Des Moines. Courtney is the ...
A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. April 8 Ingres Marisela Paniagua-Rodridguez, 32, of Los Angeles, California was arrested by the Tama Police Department for providing false identification and two counts of ...
During the April 6 Tama County Board of Conservation meeting, Conservation Director Stephen Mayne updated the board on the Otter Creek Lake restoration project, telling board members the project was on hold for the foreseeable future. As part of the restoration project – which was announced ...
The Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), in partnership with the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), is celebrating Stewardship Week from April 24 – May 1, 2022, focusing on the theme “Healthy Soil: Healthy Life.” Our health and well-being are connected ...