TOLEDO – Supervisor David Turner (R-Tama) telecommunicated from Sicily to attend last week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting Monday, April 13. You couldn’t see him, but you could hear him a few-second delay behind the rest. The meeting started out with two Windstream utility permits ...
WAVERLY – Wartburg College student Lauren Boyer of Reinbeck was inducted March 25 into the Beta Beta Beta Honor Society as an associate member. Beta Beta Beta is dedicated to improving the understanding of biological study and research. Students must have completed at least three biology ...
GILBERTVILLE – A trio of Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School Choir students participated in the Iowa High School Music Association’s (IHSMA) Class 1A State Solo and Small Ensemble Festival Saturday, April 18, at Don Bosco High School in Gilbertville. Pictured at the festival from left, vocalists ...
GLADBROOK – Patrick “Pat” Acton created his first model out of matchsticks in 1977, a church, using 500 matchsticks. This year he completed his 80th piece – Disney’s Cinderella Castle – using 607,000 matchsticks. His career total: a whopping 9,767,772 matchsticks used. He began ...
GARWIN — It’s been a longstanding goal of the Garwin Fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) departments to bring their operations together under one roof in a state-of-the-art new facility for a small town, and they celebrated the near-realization of that dream with an open house on ...
AREA – The physical journey to church will soon be changing for many area Catholics. In the face of “sobering realities,” Archbishop Thomas Zinkula announced last Saturday the Archdiocese of Dubuque’s final pastorate plan to reshuffle 160 Catholic parishes across northeast Iowa ...
TOLEDO – “With the case load we had,” Stacy Koeppen, CEO and Executive Director of Tama County Public Health and Home Care, said, “we were just at the verge of breaking even, when all this started. … We had referrals flooding in, so we would’ve been coming in above by next year. ...
GARWIN – GMG Secondary (grades 7-12) hosted a highly-successful CTE Career Olympics day at the campus in Garwin on Friday, March 27, welcoming dozens of local businesses and employers for a full day of activities. The day started with an opening ceremony featuring several speakers, ...
GLADBROOK – The Tama County Pork Producers made four recent donations to local Tama County food pantries as part of Iowa Pork’s Pork in the Pantry initiative. Per a social media post March 31, “The Tama County Pork Producers donated 120 lbs of ground pork and $600 worth of pork ...
MARSHALLTOWN – GMG High School celebrated prom last Saturday, April 11, at the Midnight Ballroom in Marshalltown. The 2026 theme was ‘A Night Under the Stars’. Saturday evening began with the public Promenade at 5 p.m. featuring JR Tichy as emcee, followed by dinner and dance which ...