TOLEDO – The Tama County Board of Supervisors held two public hearings recently to hear from citizens about proposed property tax levies. The first hearing was held at the Toledo Reinig Center on the evening of March 25, while the second took place on Monday, March 31, before the regular ...
WASHINGTON D.C. – More than 30 Iowa Farm Bureau members representing 21 counties, including Tama, met with Iowa’s congressional delegation recently in Washington, D.C. to discuss policy issues important to Iowa agriculture and their family farms. Among the attendees was Christy Flamme of ...
DES MOINES – The Iowa House this past Tuesday (April 8) passed the state K-12 school funding package for the 2025-2026 school year and sent it to the governor’s desk. Senate File 167, passed 59-36, sets the State Supplemental Aid (SSA) rate at 2%, increasing the per-pupil funding for K-12 ...
IOWA – A mild winter followed by timely spring rains has Iowa forests and woodlots leafing out ahead of spring turkey season, possibly tipping the playing field in favor of the gobblers, after a record harvest of more than 16,000 birds in 2024. The first of Iowa’s four regular spring ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Board of Supervisors and Tama County Public Health & Home Care are pleased to announce that, despite necessary budget adjustments, they will continue to provide services as they have been to All Tama County residents. All public health and home health services ...
AMES – The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program will be offering a “Last Chance” Private Pesticide Applicator Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for private pesticide applicators during from April 7 until April 15, 2025, at participating county ...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently kicked off his 45th consecutive year of meeting face-to-face with Iowans in every county. Grassley began his annual 99 county meetings on Wednesday, March 19, in Grundy County with a tour of a local business, followed by a ...
DYSART – Despite the event being billed by local organizers as a town hall to address economic issues, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) spent the bulk of his roughly hourlong stop in Dysart Wednesday afternoon fielding questions and concerns about the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and ...
TOLEDO – Upon entering the Tama County Public Health (TCPH) building for the joint Board of Supervisors and Board of Health work session last Monday (March 17), it was impossible to miss the many hearts festooned around the office with numbers written in the center, each heart representing a ...
OTTER CREEK LAKE – Fallout from Tama County’s general fund shortfall has now cut deeper into the Conservation budget. During the Thursday, March 13, meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, director Curtis Behrens told board members that in addition to the $100,000 the Board of ...