IOWA – The Iowa DNR is actively searching for top-notch volunteers who love to camp and enjoy meeting people to serve as campground hosts for the 2025 camping season at several state parks and forests. Campground hosts serve as welcoming guides to the park by checking in campers, answering ...
TRAER – Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) announces its 52nd event: “Into the Wild: Safe Mushroom Foraging.” The event will be held on Wednesday, March 26, at Traer Public Library’s Kupka Cultural Center, 531 Second Street. Registration and dessert will begin at 6:30 p.m. with ...
TOLEDO – The usual suspects congregated last Monday morning (March 3) for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting saw a whopping 25 items on the mammoth-sized agenda be discussed, acted on, and generally mulled over. The first box to get ticked ...
More than 61% of Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District voters said ‘yes’ on Tuesday to a doubling of the district’s current voted Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL). The vote – which required a simple majority of 50%+1 to pass – sailed through with 1,033 ballots cast ...
TOLEDO - On Thursday, Feb. 27, the Toledo Reinig Center was filled with citizens looking to learn a thing or two. Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt knew that a scam prevention seminar like this could provide important information to them. Investigator Al ...
TOLEDO – Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to this July. This is the second reset in the case. After being arrested in February 2024 in connection with her husband Ryan Cooper’s murder, the trial was originally set to begin on Oct. 1, 2024, before being moved ...
TAMA COUNTY – Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) continue to impact Iowa’s deer population, prompting ongoing surveillance and management efforts by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Experts, including Catherine Cummings (Iowa State ...
TRAER – The Parsonage at Ripley in Traer is again set to host monthly open mics from May through November with featured performances from local and regional artists. In the wake of a highly successful 2024 season, the venue is expanding to seven events for 2025. Poets, musicians and other ...
GRUNDY CENTER – Small businesses in Butler and Grundy counties are encouraged to attend one of two free workshops that are being hosted by the Butler-Grundy Development Alliance to help businesses best utilize social media to communicate with existing customers, and to bring new customers to ...
TOLEDO – As the wondrous face of spring was delightfully glimpsed on Monday, Feb. 24, many went back into the fray of another Tama County Supervisors meeting. It was another week of experimentation, trial and error, and electronic exploration as livestreaming with the Owl device was again ...