The North Tama Redhawks celebrated Homecoming last week as they hosted Hudson, the top ranked football team in Class A on Friday, Sept. 14 in a battle that lasted past regulation and into a tense overtime, with the Redhawks taking a tough loss 21-24."We came up with some big plays defensively, ...
Members of the Wolf Creek Players theatre group transformed the auditorium of Union Middle School into the Wild West as they presented "How the West was Fun" this past weekend.The play follows a cowboy named Curly and a supporting cast of dancehall ladies, a deceitful medicine man and other ...
The Union cross country team competed in only their second meet of the season, showing improvements across the board as they continued to compete with strong regional teams and run towards their goals."Realistically, we know where we are at now," Parson said. "We set goals and had times improve ...
Shrugging off last week's loss to Charles City, the Union Knights traveled to Dike to take on the 1A Wolverines, falling 22-35 as struggles continue for Union."We expected to have biggest challenge thus far in the season," coach Joe Hadachek. "They had 4-5 players who have D2/NAIA offers so ...
Cathy and David Irvine of rural Dysart had long held a fascination with the prairie lands that once covered Iowa 150 years ago. Today, 99.9 of that natural prairie is long gone, replaced with cities and row crops to feed a hungry nation. The story of these lands continued though for the Irvines ...
It was a battle of top five 1A volleyball programs as fifth-ranked North Tama hosted top-ranked Janesville on Thursday, Sept. 6, the Redhawks falling at home in three close sets."Janesville's defense is amazing," coach Channing Halstead said. "They always stay in control even when they're out ...
Hannah Pagel, an Ag Education student from Iowa State University, is applying her education and experience this semester at Union High School as a student teacher working with Louis Beck in his agriculture classes.Originally from rural Sumner, Pagel grew up on her father's row crop and cow/calf ...
The Little Knights Learning Center (LKLC) employees a staff of full-time and part-time caregivers to watch over infants to grade school children from early morning to the late afternoon. Among the dedicated staff are four high school seniors that come before and mainly after school to spend ...
The North Tama cross country team was able to flex its full muscle at the South Tama Invitational on Monday, Sept. 10, showing positive results despite not being able to score as a team."Overall, I am extremely happy with how the meet went," coach Katey Holbach said. "With it being a Monday ...
Union volleyball kicked off conference play on Thursday, Aug. 30 with a road win at Denver in three sets to wind down the Cyclones and recover from the previous weekend's struggles."I knew we had to play better going forward," coach Brian Jesse said. "We didn't have a very good weekend at ...