FAYETTE – Upper Iowa University has announced the Dean's List for the 2024 Spring Semester. To be honored, a student must have earned a minimum 3.50 grade point average and be enrolled as a full-time student. Local students named to the list include:
–Maddison Brenneis of La Porte ...
On The Calendar:
Mon June 24 at 1:00 Fit and Feisty
Mon June 24 at 2:00 BINGO
Tues June 25 at 1:05 Outside the Lines Coloring
Tues June 25 at 1:30 Tuesday Quilters
Wed June 26 at 10:00 Close Encounters of the Wild Kind w/ Margaret Wolter
Wed June 26 at 1:00 Fit and Feisty
Wed June ...
TRAER – Traer Legion Auxiliary’s 2024 Little Miss Poppy, Evie Manful – great-granddaughter of Kathie and Dennis Manful – made a visit to downtown Traer back on May 22 in advance of Memorial Day. While passing out poppies, Miss Evie met and posed for an official photo with Mayor Pete ...
STORM LAKE – Jana Monat of Clutier graduated with a Master of Science in Education in counseling (professional school counseling track) from Buena Vista University in Spring 2024.
Monat was among more than 400 students who received degrees.
TOLEDO – As the thunder cracked across the inky black sky and large raindrops fell from the dark clouds above, the team in the Tama County Auditor's office worked with a fervor. Primary votes were being tallied, nails were being chewed, and for the first time in decades, there's a new ...
TRAER – On Wednesday, June 26, beginning at 6:30 p.m., The Parsonage at Ripley UCC (513 Fourth Street, Traer) will host an open mic for the Traer community, featuring Katie Sires of Katie and the Honky Tonks (bio below) and serving free root beer floats. This is part of a new monthly ...
TOLEDO – Following a hearing held last Thursday, accused murderer Huston William Danker’s bond will remain at $1,000,000 as originally set as part of his arrest in late April.
On April 29, 2024, Danker, 26, was arrested in Cedar Rapids by the Tama County Sheriff’s Office and charged ...
TRAER – The Traer Community Foundation Board of Directors has announced the 2024 disbursements for a total of $57,391.23
This is the 32nd year of awarding grants. The total of Foundation grants, to the community, now total $1,001,000.00.
These are the community betterment projects by ...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Morningside University has named 250 students as Roadman Scholars in recognition of high academic distinction for the 2023-24 academic year including Dylan W. Hosek of Traer.
Roadman Scholars must be full-time students who have completed at least 45 credits of college ...
WEST DES MOINES – Allison Mask of Traer completed the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Des Moines University. The university's commencement ceremony took place on May 24, 2024.
Mask will begin a pediatrics residency at the Central Iowa Health System in Des Moines, Iowa.