TRAER – North Tama Dollars for Scholars completed its sixth year by giving scholarships worth $2,000 to 21 qualifying North Tama graduates for a $42,000 obligation on the organization’s part. To date, North Tama Dollars for Scholars has awarded $175,500 in scholarships to 110 graduates. ...
BROOKINGS, S.D. – South Dakota State University announces Grace Marie Blake of Traer has graduated following the spring 2025 semester. Blake graduated with a Bachelor of Science from SDSU's College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Nearly 1,500 students completed all ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – After six days of emotional testimony, digital forensics, and conflicting accounts, closing arguments concluded on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Karina Sue Cooper’s first-degree murder trial. Right at 5 p.m. and within hours of final statements, a jury found her guilty of ...
TRAER – Following a pair of abrupt resignations from the Traer Municipal Utilities (TMU) Board last month – and the hiring of a third board member as the new general manager – Mayor Pete Holden initiated the removal of the remaining two trustees during the July 7 regular meeting of the ...
Congratulations to all the scholarship recipients!
CEDAR RAPIDS – Karina Sue Cooper has been declared guilty of murder in the first degree. Right at 5 p.m. on Friday and following just over three hours of deliberation by the jury plus six days of testimony which began on Wednesday, July 2 – breaking for the Independence Day holiday – ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Closing arguments are expected today in the first degree murder trial of Karina Cooper, bringing to a close a little more than six days of emotional and often intense courtroom proceedings. Cooper, 48, of Traer is charged with first-degree murder in the 2021 shooting death ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — Emotions ran high inside the Linn County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 2, as the first degree murder trial of Karina Cooper, a rural Traer resident accused of killing her husband Ryan on June 18, 2021, began with opening arguments from the prosecution and defense. Aaron ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - Scenes from the fourth day of Karina Cooper's first-degree murder trial taking place in Cedar Rapids at the Linn County Courthouse. All photos courtesy of The Gazette newspaper. Click here for Tama-Grundy Publishing's story on the trial's first day of testimony.
TRAER – A North Tama teacher has been placed on administrative leave in the wake of her arrest on Monday, June 23, by the Tama County Sheriff’s Department at the Traer Municipal Swimming Pool for public intoxication and child endangerment. On June 24, Jennifer Alyssa Boerm, 40, of Traer ...