MORRISON – Mark your calendars for the annual spring open house!
The annual Heritage Museum Open House will take place on Sunday, April 27, from 1-3:30 p.m. at the Grundy County Heritage Museum located at 204 Fourth Street in Morrison. This is a free event. Come and tour the museum and ...
IOWA – The Iowa DNR is actively searching for top-notch volunteers who love to camp and enjoy meeting people to serve as campground hosts for the 2025 camping season at several state parks and forests.
Campground hosts serve as welcoming guides to the park by checking in campers, answering ...
TRAER – Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) announces its 52nd event: “Into the Wild: Safe Mushroom Foraging.” The event will be held on Wednesday, March 26, at Traer Public Library’s Kupka Cultural Center, 531 Second Street. Registration and dessert will begin at 6:30 p.m. with ...
TOLEDO – The usual suspects congregated last Monday morning (March 3) for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting saw a whopping 25 items on the mammoth-sized agenda be discussed, acted on, and generally mulled over.
The first box to get ticked ...
More than 61% of Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District voters said ‘yes’ on Tuesday to a doubling of the district’s current voted Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL).
The vote – which required a simple majority of 50%+1 to pass – sailed through with 1,033 ballots cast ...
TAMA COUNTY – Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) continue to impact Iowa’s deer population, prompting ongoing surveillance and management efforts by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Experts, including Catherine Cummings (Iowa State ...
TOLEDO – As the wondrous face of spring was delightfully glimpsed on Monday, Feb. 24, many went back into the fray of another Tama County Supervisors meeting. It was another week of experimentation, trial and error, and electronic exploration as livestreaming with the Owl device was again ...
TOLEDO – Fallout from the wind energy moratorium adopted in early January by the new five-member Tama County Board of Supervisors now includes a lawsuit brought against both the board and Tama County by the developers behind the Salt Creek Wind project.
Earlier this month on Feb. 5, Salt ...
TOLEDO – As many of the usual suspects woke up on Tuesday, Feb. 18, warmed up their vehicles, and faced the frosty fingers of the frigid morn, some stayed home. This was planned as the regular weekly supervisors' meeting acted as a trial run for the new Owl livestreaming system.
Supervisor ...
DES MOINES – More than 3,100 acres of Iowa land in 24 counties with an estimated value of more than $7.6 million was permanently protected through donations for conservation including land in Tama County.
The donors associated with 23 donations of land or land value will be recognized ...