CEDAR RAPIDS – Several members of North Tama’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America chapter attended the annual Iowa FCCLA Leadership Conference in Cedar Rapids March 22-24. Among the highlights, sophomore Silas Johnson and seventh-grader Elyza Donaldson earned first place team ...
TRAER – Carnegie Libraries across America, including the Traer Public Library, recently received a $10,000 gift to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence through a special initiative announced last October by Carnegie Corporation of New ...
TRAER – On Tuesday, March 24, seven North Tama sophomore students were inducted into the Perry Chapter of the National Honor Society. The ceremony took place in the main gymnasium. NHS membership is based upon the four pillars of Scholarship, Service, Leadership, and Character. North ...
TRAER – Last fall’s well-received freezer meal fundraiser sponsored by North Tama’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America chapter is back and this time open to the wider public. For those with students at North Tama, samples of the three fundraiser offerings will again be ...
TRAER – Traer’s only pharmacy is set to abruptly shutter Tuesday, March 31, following an announcement that four NuCara Pharmacy locations in Iowa are closing and the company is reportedly being acquired by Medicap. Alongside Traer, NuCara pharmacies in Conrad, Ackley, and Zearing are also ...
TRAER – When word got out last November that Traer was to become the third local MercyOne clinic casualty in as many years alongside Dysart and Gladbrook, the rural community of roughly 1,500 people was justifiably concerned considering Tama County has no hospitals and no urgent care ...
TRAER – The community of Traer came together on Saturday, March 21, for the inaugural Traer Quilt Experience: Binding Faith and Community with Patchwork. The banner event was co-hosted by Ripley United Church of Christ, the Traer Public Library, and the Traer Historical Museum with support ...
TRAER – Last month, rural Tama County resident and photographer Mindy Finzen and her family were witness to quite a show at their acreage west of Traer as half a dozen bald eagles perched in leafless trees near their home beneath a perfect azure sky. “There were just lots of eagles ...
Dr. Alford Farnham, a local doctor and surgeon, built the hospital on Main Street in 1915. The main floor consisted of a reception room, doctor’s office and exam rooms. The second floor had an operating room, kitchen and patient rooms. The hospital was open to other doctors in the area as ...
TRAER – Members of Traer’s Girl Scout Troop 2857 gave a presentation of their activities, including sales of their famous cookies, during the Traer American Legion Auxiliary’s March meeting which took place at the Memorial Building.