REINBECK – With municipal budgets continuing to tighten statewide, voters in the City of Reinbeck will head to the polls next Tuesday, Sept. 8, for a special election on a public measure to establish a continuing capital improvements reserve fund and impose a levy of 67.5 cents per $1,000 ...
TOLEDO – At the Monday, Aug. 10, Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting, citizen Bob Vokoun stood before the board and presented a petition to put the possibility of going back to three supervisors on the November ballot. Vokoun’s request came a mere two years after the board expanded to ...
TOLEDO – After the sun was poured out above the clouds and left to burn on the griddle, the usual group woke and made their way to the Monday, Aug. 24 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The meeting started with the roads report, which stated they replaced a culvert and continued ...
TOLEDO – A battalion of citizens headed to the Monday, Aug. 17 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting with confusion the predominant feeling as no one seemed to have a firm grasp on what was going on or what the proper thing to do was, especially as it pertained to the petition to return ...
TOLEDO – The sun was high in the sky, beating down on the morning like Cassius Clay in the third round. The Tama County Supervisors’ Monday, Aug. 10 meeting started with the board being served a petition during the public comments time. The petition was to place a public measure on the ...
TOLEDO – It’s not just a simple management shift for the local board of supervisors; no, this is one of those historic moments that needs to be recorded and remembered for the posterity of Tama County. The first elected woman to the Tama County Board of Supervisors is now the first female ...
GRUNDY CENTER - After a decade of Republican control of state government, gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand thinks it's time for a sea change in Iowa. But rather than overcorrect in the opposite direction, the Democratic state auditor is instead asking voters to remember their roots and chart ...
TAMA – On Tuesday, June 2, no Republican candidate for Tama County Treasurer reached the 35% threshold required to be declared the winner of the primary election, sending the race to a county nominating convention held Tuesday, Aug. 4. In the primary vote, incumbent Amanda Kriegel received ...
TOLEDO – As the morning dew sparkled and glittered on the blades of grass, the sun rose anew and brought together the usual batch of outspoken citizens to witness the weekly rhapsody in bureaucracy at the Monday, Aug. 3 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The roads report was given, ...
GRUNDY CENTER – Grundy County Conservation Director Nick Buseman, third from left, was honored as part of the Monday, Aug. 3, Grundy County Board of Supervisors meeting for 25 years of service to the county. Also pictured from left, Supervisor Vic Vandehaar, Vice-Chair LJ Kopsa, Buseman, ...