GREEN MOUNTAIN – During a special meeting of the Green Mountain-Garwin school board held on March 7, a pair of motions were approved allowing the district to both enter into a superintendent sharing agreement with Baxter Community School District beginning next school year while also hiring ...
DES MOINES — A complaint filed by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) against Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) over his involvement with the newly created Tama-Toledo Christian School was unanimously dismissed by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee on Tuesday morning.
"I’m glad ...
TOLEDO – The March 4 Tama County Board of Supervisors' meeting started like always with the report from the engineer who started out talking about rock — contract rock to be exact. The rock hauling will start this week down south and move on up north.
Interviews will be done soon for a ...
TOLEDO – During a bond review hearing held by videoconference in Tama County District Court on Wednesday, March 6, a judge left the conditions as previously set — $1 million cash or surety — for Karina Sue Cooper, the rural Traer woman accused of murdering her husband Ryan Cooper at their ...
CLUTIER – The Tama County Joint Legion and Auxiliary meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 26, at 1:30 p.m. in Clutier. Please note this is an afternoon meeting. We will have an update on Government Day coming up on April 10.
Tama County Sheriff's Office Detective Trevor J. Killian has recently been selected for his second assignment as the next 607th Military Police Battalion Command Sergeant Major in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Command Sergeants Major is the senior most noncommissioned officer in the Army. The 607th ...
DYSART – She may be just nine years old, but Maecy Schmidt harbors some big dreams including one day becoming the first female sheriff of Tama County. While she waits on achieving that milestone, however, she’s started helping her dad, Tama County Sheriff’s Deputy Casey Schmidt with ...
GREEN MOUNTAIN – In a decision few probably saw coming, the GMG Board of Education approved a motion Monday night to explore the possibility of sharing a superintendent with Baxter Community School District in Jasper County.
With newly-installed Interim-Superintendent Gary Sinclair at the ...
DES MOINES — A liberal activist group has filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour), whose Iowa House district includes most of Tama County (excluding Traer, Dysart, and Buckingham) and all of Poweshiek County, over allegations that he is attempting to “cash in” on ...
GLADBROOK – Members of Gladbrook’s Peace United Church of Christ welcomed 2024 by installing a new faith leader, Rev. John Granchie who gave his first sermon from the Peace pulpit on Sunday, January 6.
Pastor Granchie assumed his new role at Peace following the passing last August of Rev. ...