A new quilting group met for the first time at Ripley United Church of Christ in Traer last Saturday morning in an effort to appeal to a broader audience. Amid the backdrop of National Quilting Day celebrations – observed annually the third Saturday in March – several members of ...
It was a bittersweet North Tama Swing Show last Friday and Saturday nights in Traer as retiring vocal music teacher Terry Shay directed his final iteration of the music department’s annual variety show. Despite what the National Weather Service coined “menacing March snow” on ...
Members of the Traer Historical Museum Board received word last week that their grant application to improve the main floor lighting in their downtown museum has been approved to the tune of $8,990. The grant was awarded by the Tama County Community Foundation and will be used to replace ...
It’s been nearly 50 years since Michael Skopec wrestled for the University of Northern Iowa Panthers, but come this June it might seem like only yesterday as the longtime North Tama science teacher and his fellow 1974-75 Panther wrestlers are inducted into the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of ...
The North Tama and Union Academic Decathlon teams competed at State the weekend of March 4 and 5 in Urbandale, with North Tama placing seventh out of 12 schools for overall team score in the small school division, and Union placing first in the same division. Union’s championship win means ...
The most welcome aspect of winter for many people in Iowa is when it at long last comes to an end but that was hardly the case for Traer and its surrounding communities last week as those areas were battered by the recent ice storm. While the upper Midwest including the top tier of Iowa’s ...
As a steady line of folks queued up last Friday evening in the Traer Fire station for a heaping helping of fish and fries, next door at City Hall another queue was forming to vote as part of the March 7 special election. The idea to hold early satellite voting during the Feb. 24 fish fry ...
On Tuesday, March 7, residents of the North Tama County Community School District will vote on a bond issue. If it is approved, the district will move ahead on a series of key facility projects to address our schools’ most significant needs. The proposed projects include an east ...
March 7 will be a busy day for Tama County Elections Administrator Karen Rohrs as four schools with boundaries in the county hold special elections including North Tama, Benton Community, GMG, and Hawkeye Community College. Benton Community includes roughly six sections of the northeast ...
Only a few wrestlers every season get to say they ended their season with a win. North Tama sophomore Kolt Knaack made sure he was one of those few early Saturday afternoon with a 34-second pin of Myles McMahon of Don Bosco at 138 pounds in Class 1A, locking up fifth place with a commanding ...