Sean and Kim Dengler of Urbandale welcomed the birth of their first child, Asher James Dengler, on December 22. He was born at Methodist West Hospital in West Des Moines. Asher came into the world weighing 8 lbs, 7.8 oz while measuring 21 inches. Grandparents are Jim (James) and Linda Hale of ...
TRAER – “What an exciting call I got last month from Scholarship America, the national parent group of Dollars for Scholars!” exclaimed Marilyn Bauch, vice president of North Tama Dollars for Scholars (NTDFS), earlier this year. The phone call informed Bauch NTDFS had been chosen to ...
TRAER – Ahead of the Christmas holiday, the Traer Lions Club announced the winners of this year’s Christmas lighting contest. Awards this year were based on size categories rather than places (i.e. first, second, third). All winners receive $75. Winners include: -Small Category: Mitch ...
TRAER – The 2025 Holiday Happenings Lighted Parade illuminated Traer’s downtown from end to end last Friday evening as part of the Chamber of Commerce’s annual two-day holiday spectacular. As has become tradition, ahead of the parade – which trundled down snow-covered Second Street ...
TRAER – In the words of Traer historian George Kadrmas, ‘a grand old home’ located southwest of Traer was destroyed by fire on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. “A grand old home burned to the ground last week,” Kadrmas posted Nov. 24 to the Facebook public group St. Vaclav ...
To North Tama Citizens, About November 7, 2025, the staff at Mercy One Clinic in Traer were informed Mercy was closing the Traer clinic. At the same time, the Board of Directors, under the name North Tama Medical Associates (owners of the clinic building) was informed that Mercy One (Trinity ...
TRAER – Financial reasons lie at the heart of the latest MercyOne clinic closure, but that’s not stopping the owners of the clinic’s building in downtown Traer from working to recruit a new provider. Prior to MercyOne’s outreach to patients regarding the closure of MercyOne Traer ...
TRAER – Another MercyOne clinic will soon be no more. “On December 10, we will transition care from MercyOne Traer Family Medicine to MercyOne Reinbeck Family Medicine. This provides patients in Reinbeck, Traer and surrounding communities with a fuller, stronger care team with more ...
TRAER – Congregants at Ripley United Church of Christ in Traer may harbor slightly higher expectations for the weekly sermon now that their minister, renaissance man Jim Coppoc has been named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Iowa Music Awards. “Sadly, I didn’t attend the awards. I had no ...
TRAER – Newly-elected North Tama school board directors Seth Seda and LeRoy Staker took the oath of office alongside returning director David Calderwood during the Monday, Nov. 17, annual organizational meeting held in the junior high commons. Seda defeated Jordan Hagedon on Nov. 4 for the ...