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‘Best fair yet’

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GRUNDY CENTER – The Grundy County Fair Board successfully hosted the 2025 All-American Grundy County Fair last week beginning Monday, July 21, on the fairgrounds in Grundy Center. “A huge shoutout to our amazing 4-H, FFA, and Clover Kids – you poured your hearts into your animals, ...

Settlement with Salt Creek Wind approved

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Sun Courier Note: This story will publish in the Friday, Aug. 8 print edition of the newspaper. TOLEDO - This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting saw a pivotal turn in the epic wind turbine saga. After years of fighting, litigation, and back-and-forth, the supervisors agreed to ...

Hatch Farms among 2025 Way We Live Award recipients

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DES MOINES – Six Iowa farm families will be recognized as recipients of the 2025 Way We Live Award at the Iowa State Fair including the family of the late Kenneth Hatch who farm west of Gladbrook. Nominations for the annual award include descriptions of how living on the farm and choosing ...

‘Loyal to the soil’

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REINBECK – Not even three weeks had elapsed since their blazing debut album “Ain’t No Shame” started tearing up the music press, when classic country band Katie and the Honky Tonks (KTHT) were back at it on rooted ground – playing for the first time on Thursday, July 17 at The Dig ...

Frank Albertsen selected for Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame

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TOLEDO – There are very few folks involved in Tama County 4-H/FFA and agriculture in general who don’t know Frank Albertsen of rural Toledo. But now, the greater population of Iowa will have the opportunity to learn all about him, too, as the county’s 2025 Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame ...

Tama County Fair hosts inaugural Bacon Buddies Show

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GLADBROOK – The first annual Bacon Buddies Show at the Tama County Fair was held on Friday, July 18, at the fairgrounds in Gladbrook following the 4-H Swine Show with half a dozen buddies participanting. Bacon Buddies, now in its sixth year at the Iowa State Fair, “gives individuals ...

Gladbrook-Lincoln Ambulance meet & greet set for Aug. 10

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GLADBROOK - Come meet our new faces! The Gladbrook-Lincoln Ambulance Service invites the community to a meet and greet set for Aug. 10 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. during which the members of the public will have the opportunity to meet new volunteers joining the Ambulance. Catering will be ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig stops at Grundy County Fair

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GRUNDY CENTER — The All-American Grundy County Fair welcomed Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig as a special guest for the first night of festivities on Monday, July 21, as he helped members of the Grundy County Farm Bureau prepare a free hamburger meal at the 1851 Pavilion and presented ...

The Tama County Supervisors: A meeting in two acts

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TOLEDO – The Monday, July 21 meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors went on as usual but with this week's production adding a long intermission for a closed session. The gallery mulled about in the hallway discussing what had happened so far in the show and proposing theories as to ...

Tscherter graduates from Missouri State University

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Missouri State University awarded 2,824 degrees to students in spring 2025. The commencement ceremonies took place May 9, 2025, at Great Southern Bank Arena. Tyler Tscherter of Reinbeck graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Marketing.