State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past four weeks, including rodent infestations, “slimy” lettuce, long-expired food and the sale of potentially dangerous supplements. In one instance, an inspector ...
TRAER – These may be the waning days of Class A football at North Tama. Two years ago this December, the North Tama school board voted 5-2 to keep Redhawk varsity football in Class A (11-player) rather than drop to 8-Player despite the district sitting squarely at the bottom of the ...
TRAER – Lion Denny Berger, left, presenting a $1,000 check to Tammy Wendt for winning the Traer Lions Club Cow Chip Bingo Contest which occurred during this year’s Winding Stairs Festival held in August. Congratulations to her and a big thank you to all who bought tickets which enable the ...
Telegraph note: The Traer Public Library newsletter was inadvertently left out of the print edition of the paper this week. Our apologies for this unintentional error. The newsletter will be back next week in print. On The Calendar: Mon Nov 4 at 1:00 Fit and Feisty Tues Nov 5 at 1:30 ...
TRAER – The cast is changing at the Traer Theatre. After 15 years running the front of house (and everything in between!), theater manager Mona Larsen has chosen to retire. “It was just time,” Larsen said last Wednesday afternoon as she stood behind the movie theater’s concession ...
DYSART – Ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Tama-Grundy Publishing sent questionnaires to all the local candidates in contested statehouse races. This week we feature responses from those running for Iowa House District 76 which includes the communities of Traer, Dysart, and Buckingham ...
TRAER – National Friends of Libraries Week took place this past week (Oct. 20-26). As part of the 19th annual national celebration, the Traer Public Library invites anyone and everyone to become a Friend! All that is required is a love of the library and a willingness to support it. Friends ...
TRAER – Members of the North Tama Class of 1974 celebrated their 50th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival held in early August. Those pictured include, first row (l-r): Janet (Blocker) Ogesen, Sharon (Ingle) Stoakes, Jill (Vorba) Berger, Kristine (Gates) Ashworth, Susan (Catron) ...
Ahead of the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election, Tama-Grundy Publishing reporter Ruby McAllister sent questionnaires to all the local candidates in contested statehouse elections. This week we feature responses from those running for Iowa Senate District 38: Democratic incumbent Eric Giddens of ...
Eric Giddens, 50, is the Democratic incumbent for Senate District 38. He lives with his son Henry – a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Northern Iowa – and girlfriend Alison in Cedar Falls. Sen. Giddens earned a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master of ...