TOLEDO – If you drive on U.S. 63 in Tama County between the northern city limits of Toledo and 0.25 miles south of Iowa 96, you need to be aware of a road closure that may impact your trip. Beginning this past Monday, April 20 until mid-October, weather permitting, crews will close the ...
DES MOINES – On Monday, April 20, Governor Kim Reynolds issued a disaster proclamation for Carroll, Crawford, Grundy, Harrison, and Washington Counties in response to severe weather that occurred April 13, 2026, and continuing. Governor Reynolds’ proclamation allows state resources to be ...
GLADBROOK – On April 9, 2026, the Gladbrook Women’s Club held its monthly membership meeting and Senior Citizens Luncheon at the Gladbrook Memorial Building. Becky Thoms Fevold presented regarding TF Clydesdales. This is a family-owned generational business. She had several photos, showed ...
GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook area Senior Citizens Dinner will be held on Friday, May 8, beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Peace Church with the Guild serving. Everyone 55 years old and up are invited to attend. Call Jeanne at 641-751-2039 for reservations.
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 ...