TRAER – The 2026 Winding Stairs Festival grand parade took place last Saturday, Aug. 8, beginning at 4 p.m. Glorious weather provided the perfect backdrop for the festival’s “Harvest the Fun” theme. Longtime Traer residents Jared and Marilyn Bauch were the parade grand marshals. ...
TRAER – Just in time for high school football season, Traer’s water tower will soon sport a fresh Redhawk-themed paint scheme as part of a restoration project. “Work on the Traer water town has started,” Traer Municipal Utilities (TMU) General Manager Eric McEwen told the newspaper ...
IOWA – State regulators have suspended, without explanation, a nursing home administrator’s license to practice in Iowa. The Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators says that in April 2025, it received a complaint against the licensee Marcy Louise Martin, 51, concerning the ...
TRAER – North Tama High School Class of 2017 alumna Carlee Margaret Feisel, RN, BSN, has been charting an upward career path since graduating as class valedictorian nearly a decade ago. “I am delighted to announce some extraordinary news about my daughter,” Feisel’s mother, Tiffany, ...
TRAER – The Green Gable Service Station on the corner of Main and Seventh Streets was built by Joe Seda in 1930. The new structures followed an English Style of architecture, with large casement windows, and light brown brick. The office building included a refreshment stand and restrooms. ...
IOWA – The Iowa Department of Education, Bureau of Nutrition and Health Services, has finalized its policy for free and reduced price meals for students unable to pay the full price of meals served under the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Special Milk Program and the ...
TRAER – Longtime stewards of the community, Jared and Marilyn Bauch, have been named parade grand marshals of Traer’s 2026 Winding Stairs Festival. “They have been so active in the community and with the school,” festival committee member Leigh Sell told the newspaper earlier this ...
TRAER – North Tama and Traer’s honored alumni will gather for a reunion on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 7-8 during the 2026 Winding Stairs Festival. Eight honored classes have been especially invited to attend the festivities, including Traer High School classes of 1956 (70 years) and 1961 (65 ...
TRAER – Farm to market roads and bridges were a priority in the 1950s. This photo shows Hahn Construction of Des Moines finishing the grade on V18 from Highway 8 to Clutier in 1958.
LA PORTE CITY – In the wake of state Rep. Derek Wulf’s selection to run for lieutenant governor alongside gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn on the Republican ticket this fall, local GOP central committee members convened last week to nominate Wulf’s replacement – settling on Hudson ...