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Tama County News

‘The Snyders’ Freedom Rockin’ Tour’ coming June 10 to Wieting Theatre

TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will host a program on Iowa’s Freedom Rocks on Wednesday, June 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Amy Snyder will share the story of her journey to visit and document all 100 of Iowa’s Freedom Rocks, a goal she ...

May we never forget our fallen heroes

GLADBROOK – The Gladbrook American Legion Ehrig-McTurk Post 127 along with the Auxiliary and Lincoln AMVETS Post 10 welcomed more than 50 people to the annual Memorial Day Service held at Gladbrook’s All Veterans Memorial Park on Monday, May 25. Ahead of the service, which took place ...

The Stories of Our Lives: Lincoln, Iowa

This article is dedicated to the citizens of Lincoln, past and present. It describes what it was like to live in that community during the author’s formative years (the 1950s). If the stories of our past are not shared, they will vanish with the storyteller and be forgotten. LINCOLN – ...

RTU partners with Traer Municipal Utilities

REINBECK – Reinbeck Telecommunications Utility (RTU) is announcing a new partnership with Traer Municipal Utilities (TMU) to provide enhanced broadband services to the Traer community. This collaboration between two community-owned utilities will bring improved internet speeds, reliability, ...

Four Tama County Treasurer hopefuls take questions during candidate forum

TOLEDO – The four Republican candidates seeking the office of Tama County Treasurer gathered for a forum held at the Tama Civic Center on Tuesday, May 19, fielding questions from moderators Mark Doland and David Turner, both current Tama County Supervisors, before a crowd of approximately 60 ...

Routine business for Tama County Board of Supervisors

Routine business for Tama County Board of Supervisors By Michael D. Davis, Correspondent TOLEDO – On a sunny Monday, May 18, the usual group assembled for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. After some public comments, the meeting moved on to the engineer's report, ...

Power of Produce programs return to the 2026 Toledo Farmers’ Market

TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Tama County is bringing back its popular Power of Produce (PoP) Club for children at the 2026 Toledo Farmers’ Market, along with the PoP PLUS program for adults 65 and older. Originally launched in 2011 at the Oregon City Farmers ...

Ten percent cut

TOLEDO – Chairman Mark Doland was absent for the Monday, May 11 Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting, so the second in charge, Supervisor Heather Knebel, ran the meeting. Kicking off the meeting with the roads report, it was said that rocking and chloride will be done this week, and ...