GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook Community Kids Club recently donated food to the Northwest Tama County Food Pantry (left photo). The club also prepared and blessed backpacks for Orphan Grain Train with help from Pastor Gideon Gallo (right photo).
TOLEDO – Last Monday’s (Oct. 13) Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting started with the making of a puddle on the meeting room floor. As Supervisor Curt Hilmer attempted to open his morning Dr Pepper, the pop foamed, overflowed the top, and dripped down onto the tile. After Hilmer was ...
GLADBROOK – The Northwest Tama County Churches serving Gladbrook, Green Mountain, and Lincoln communities are again hosting the Christmas Family Project Boxes and Gifts. If a family is in need of a food box and/or gifts for their children this Christmas season, please request an application ...
GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook Women's Club held its monthly membership meeting on October 9, 2025, at the Methodist Church. Our program was Quilting by Connie Lovelady. Connie brought many samples of quilts from small to large, old and new, and so many patterns and materials. Co-President ...
TAMA – Tama County Tom Stompers, the Tama County chapter of the National Wildlife Turkey Federation (NWTF), will hold a bingo night on Friday, Nov. 21, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Tama Ballroom located at 1411 E Fifth Street in Tama. Ten bingo games will be played in total including nine ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present “Traveling the Dolomites of Northern Italy" with Mary Dooley on Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Be transported to the northern Italian Alps for spectacular scenery, some South Tyrol ...
MARSHALLTOWN – Surrounded by legendary chocolates, Iowa Second District Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-Marion) stopped at Lillie Mae’s Chocolates on Saturday, Oct. 18, in Marshalltown to meet owner-operator Aimee Deimerly-Snyder and staff. Hinson, 42, and Deimerly-Snyder chatted while ...
Local fire departments helped ignite learning among students at both Gladbrook-Reinbeck and GMG last week as part of Fire Prevention Week. On Friday, Oct. 10, Reinbeck Fire and EMS stopped by the elementary and Little Rebels Learning Center campuses in Reinbeck, while Gladbrook Fire & ...
GARWIN – GMG High School crowned 2025 Homecoming King Drayson Stephenson and Homecoming Queen Jocie Parks during a coronation ceremony at the high school here on Wednesday, Oct. 8. On Friday afternoon, King Stephenson and Queen Parks (top photo) along with their fellow candidate couples ...
REINBECK – Late this past Monday evening (Oct. 13), Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District Superintendent Caleb Bonjour posted to the district’s Facebook page a lengthy “District Response to Misleading Information and Social Media Posts” in an effort to address what he ...