The 2022 McKenna Reunion for the families of the late Charles and Clara McKenna was held on Sunday, August 7 at Taylor Park in Traer. Fifty family members attended the potluck dinner. Our president for this year, Kate Hopper, led a meeting after dinner. Charlie McKenna will be the president for ...
Congratulations to Liz Bauch, winner of the Traer Lions Club Cow Chip Bingo Contest which occurred during the Winding Stairs Festival. President Bruce Morrison presented her a $1000 check at the North Tama Alumni reunion dinner. A big thank you to all who bought tickets, enabling the Lions Club ...
With the loss of Redhawks Gabe Kopriva, Devin McKinley, Aiden Zook, and Michael Bell to graduation this past spring, North Tama football was in need of some new leadership on the gridiron. Following the team’s scrimmage with North Linn this past Friday night at home on Dennis Field – during ...
It was a bash to remember last Saturday afternoon in downtown Traer as several hundred folks lined up along Walnut and Second streets for the Winding Stairs Festival’s 25th grand parade. The parade featured a variety of floats including local businesses/organizations; school teams; the ...
Three separate Tama County farm families are set to be honored on Thursday, August 18, at the Iowa State Fair with Century Farm designations including Mark and Cindy Tomlinson and Dallas and Kaitlyn Tomlinson of Traer (est. 1911); Ray and Jo Ellen Kubik and family of Traer (est. 1908); and ...
A concrete pavement overlay project from Wolfe Creek bridge to 0.5 mile south of Iowa 58 will require closing U.S. 63, starting Tuesday, September 6, at 7 a.m.at 7:00 a.m., until November 14, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Marshalltown construction ...
As the first games of the fall season inch closer, winter sports might be the furthest thing from a lot of people’s minds but not for North Tama’s head wrestling coach Andrew Knaack who’s been working diligently to put together a brand new girls’ wrestling program. The long-awaited and ...
State Sen. Eric Giddens, a Democrat from Cedar Falls, stopped by the monthly meeting of the Traer City Council on August 1 in order to introduce himself to some of his new constituents. Beginning with the 90th General Assembly which gavels in this coming January, Giddens will represent the new ...
Park University announces its Spring 2022 graduates. The list of graduates includes those from the University’s flagship campus in Parkville as well as its 40 additional campuses across the country and online worldwide. The University had 963 students eligible to graduate — 214 students ...