The story last week was certainly the weather as two significant winter storms clobbered Iowa – the first blowing through Monday into Tuesday with a heavy, wet snow, and the second arriving Friday into Saturday with blizzard conditions and bitter cold. The snowstorms combined dumped ...
TAMA COUNTY – In the end, it really wasn’t much of a contest. Much like the rest of Iowa, Republican caucusgoers in Tama County overwhelmingly favored one candidate Monday night for the 2024 presidential nominee – former president Donald Trump who garnered more than 58% of the caucus ...
TAMA COUNTY – Following the passage of the Students First Act which was signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds in late January last year, a group of Tama County residents began working to expand the educational options available to students in grades K-8 by founding a private, accredited ...
TOLEDO – Weather was the talk of the Tama Co. Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, Jan. 8. Predictions of sunny skies to mountains of fluffy cotton ball snow were thrown around. Using caution, the supervisors made the decision to close the county offices on Tuesday, Jan. 9. The engineer ...
TOLEDO – The three local citizens that make up Tama County’s precincting board showed up at half past eight on Monday, Jan. 8 for a meeting to approve the final version of the new supervisor district maps which move the county from three supervisors to five. The appointed board members ...
TAMA COUNTY – The application window is opening January 15 for the 2024 Spring Master Gardener training cohort, which will be offered in 29 counties or extension regions. Iowans wishing to become Master Gardener volunteers choose a county to complete training through, participate in ...
CEDAR FALLS – In celebration of the newly-named Wilson College of Business after Traer native David Wilson, UNI invites prospective business students to apply for free from January 14 through January 19, 2024. Incoming freshmen and transfer students can apply to UNI without paying the typical ...
OTTER CREEK – Have you met Tama County Conservation’s (new!) educational hedgehog Olive? Be sure to say ‘hello’ to her at the nature center during your next trip to Otter Creek Lake & Park! Olive is an African pygmy hedgehog which is a species native to Africa and is not an Iowa ...
GRUNDY CENTER – The greater Gladbrook-Reinbeck/Grundy Center communities lovingly stepped up in recent days to embrace Gladbrook native Tarrence Peterson – a member of the G-R High School Class of 2003 – and his young Grundy Center family following a tragic set of events that took the ...
TAMA COUNTY – U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) made her way to Tama County last week Thursday, stopping by Traer’s local grocery store, Hometown Foods, on an official visit for both a tour and some lunchtime specials. According to Hometown Foods owners Doug and Jill Eilderts – who ...