TOLEDO – Tama County is in need of a new Zoning Administrator. With an overcast sky abundant with heavy clouds, the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting this past Monday was well attended with a possible closed session on the agenda – a session that instead remained wide open ...
Sun Courier Note: This story will publish in the Friday, May 2 print edition of the newspaper. TOLEDO – And then there were four. Last week, Tama County added two more lawsuits to its docket, bringing the total number of petitions filed against the County in recent months to at least four. ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Community Foundation (TCCF) held its 2025 grant awards celebration at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo on April 10, announcing the distribution of $181,754.01 to 33 projects of organizations serving Tama County through its 2025 grant cycle. Grant recipient, ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who received child pornography was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. John Thomas Carstensen, age 50, of Gladbrook received the prison term after a Nov. 12, 2024 guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography. In a plea agreement, Carstensen admitted ...
May will be an exciting month in the sky. As May begins, brilliant Venus and bright Saturn will be close together low in the eastern predawn sky with Mercury near the eastern horizon and probably hard to spot without binoculars. As the month progresses, Mercury will drop quickly toward the Sun, ...
TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Master Gardeners will be in two communities on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to noon (or as quantities last) distributing native tree seedlings to the public. Stop by the Tama Library in Tama or the TMU parking lot in Traer to receive two seedlings per household at ...
TOLEDO – Learn all the basics of baking with a sourdough starter at a Sourdough Workshop on May 29 at 6 p.m. The workshop will be offered at the Tama County Iowa State University Extension and Outreach office in Toledo. Holly Van Heel, a human sciences educator with ISU Extension and ...
GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook Senior Citizens dinner will be Friday, May 9, beginning at 11:30 a.m. at Peace Church. The Guild will be serving. For reservations call Jeanne at 641-751-2039 or Susan Wegner at 641-750-1517.
TOLEDO – Many were up after the morning's first bloom to participate in last week’s (April 14) scheduled discord with the Tama County Board of Supervisors. One of the more compelling items on the agenda was the report completed and compiled following the human resources audit conducted by ...
TOLEDO – Tama County Public Health & Home Care (TCPH&HC) recently received $19,203.60 for Stop the Bleed (STB) kits from Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) funding for emergency and response through the Central Iowa Health Care Coalition. The grant funds are being ...