DES MOINES – Tama County 4-H members proudly represented their county at the 2026 Iowa State Fair August, 13-23, showcasing their livestock projects and the skills they have developed through months of hard work and dedication. Their participation highlights the learning, responsibility, and ...
RURAL GLADBROOK – The women of Chapel Church near Gladbrook prepared and served area senior citizens on Friday, Sept. 11, at 11:30 a.m. Tables were decorated in a school theme. After the meal and a short tribute about 9/11, questions were asked about guests’ school days. There were also ...
TOLEDO – It was a dark gray Monday as last week’s (Monday, Sept. 14) Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting started with the usual roads report stating that they are brush cutting, hydroseeding, hauling rock, blading, and doing other work between rain showers. The supervisors approved ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County will host a Forest, Aquatic, and Right-of-Way Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education ...
MARSHALLTOWN – About a month ago, the Iowa Valley Community College District (IVCCD), which serves Marshall, Tama, Hardin and Poweshiek counties and includes campuses in Marshalltown, Iowa Falls and Grinnell, was announced as one of just 11 community colleges in the entire country — and the ...
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 ...
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 ...
TAMA – Rep. Dean Fisher of Montour thought his chess-playing days were over after giving up the mind sport half a century ago following high school. But through his work with the private, non-denominational K-8 Tama-Toledo Christian School, he’s picked up the game again after all these ...
TOLEDO – At the Monday, Aug. 10, Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting, citizen Bob Vokoun stood before the board and presented a petition to put the possibility of going back to three supervisors on the November ballot. Vokoun’s request came a mere two years after the board expanded to ...