TOLEDO – Last week’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting kicked off a day late due to Monday’s Labor Day holiday and with only a few items on the agenda. Two utility permits were approved with little discussion. The roads report stated they were spraying, hydro-seeding, and ...
BISMARCK, N.D. – Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Hoeven of North Dakota say they want to help U.S. beef producers grow their herds while President Donald Trump plans to import 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef meant to lower prices for consumers. The two senators spoke ...
DES MOINES – Iowa experienced a wetter than average August overall, but drought conditions persist in the northern and western parts of the state, according to the Iowa DNR’s latest Water Summary Update. An area of severe drought that appeared in western Iowa during August has kept the ...
Many Americans will pause (today) on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to remember the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that day. The attacks became a shared national tragedy, the impact of which reached far beyond those who experienced them firsthand. The aftermath of such a ...
REINBECK – Reinbeck voters overwhelmingly approved a public measure to establish a continuing capital improvements reserve fund and corresponding levy this past Tuesday as part of a city special election. According to unofficial results obtained from the Grundy County Auditor’s Office, ...
REINBECK – With the snip of a ribbon last Thursday, the community of Reinbeck officially doubled its local banking options. “A couple years ago … we thought, what's another great community in Grundy County that we can go and be a part of?” Peoples Savings Bank President and CEO Eric ...
REINBECK – Equity Bancshares, Inc., the Wichita-based holding company of Equity Bank, along with Lincoln Bancorp, the parent company of Lincoln Savings Bank, headquartered in Reinbeck, announced last week Thursday, Sept. 3, they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for Lincoln to ...
MARSHALLTOWN – One of the few remaining World War II veterans in central Iowa passed away recently at the Iowa Veterans Home (IVH) in Marshalltown. Ralph Alshouse, 102, an IVH resident and a Navy pilot during World War II, died Aug. 21 at the facility, according to Commandant Todd ...
TOLEDO – After the light switch was flipped and the sun lit up a muggy, humid Monday morning, Aug. 31, the usual bunch of bureaucratic rubberneckers made their way to the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The meeting began with the roads report, which stated that they are ...
TOLEDO – Rural law enforcement officials from across central Iowa used a recent roundtable with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to raise concerns about mental health services, staffing, grant access, state policy, and the growing number of responsibilities falling on small ...