TOLEDO – Tama County 4-H in collaboration with Iowa State University's Water Rocks! program is doing fantastic work by educating kids about water conservation and environmental stewardship. Water Rocks! combines STEM and the arts to inspire young minds to appreciate and care for water ...
June will be an interesting month in the sky. Saturn and Venus will be far enough from the Sun to be seen easily before dawn. Saturn will lead the way and will be unmistakable in the southeastern sky in the western end of the large, dim constellation Pisces (the Fish). Brilliant Venus will ...
TOLEDO – Dodging raindrops, the usual congregation of citizens and elected officials met for the weekly Supervisors meeting on Monday, May 19. The meeting began with a long discussion between the supervisors and Economic Development Director Katherine Ollendieck. The discourse on the future ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present a program on Aviation in Iowa on Wednesday, June 11, at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Amelia Earhart, the most famous woman to fly, was raised in Des Moines and saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair. ...
TOLEDO – Under bright blue skies and white cotton ball clouds, the county leaders met for their weekly meeting on Monday, May 12. All supervisors were present with Heather Knebel telecommuting via the Owl. She became a TV star as her image was on the television on the wall. The meeting ...
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh story in a series of nine first published by the Times-Republican newspaper honoring the 32 men from Grundy, Hardin, Marshall and Tama counties who perished during the Vietnam War including one man considered as missing-in-action. From Nov. 1, 1955 to ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Board of Supervisors held two meetings between Friday, May 2, and Monday, May 5 – double the meetings, double the fun. The first meeting which took place that Friday, had a few different agenda items, the most interesting being the acceptance of the resignation ...
Editor's Note: This story will publish in the Friday, May 23, edition of the Sun Courier. OTTER CREEK LAKE – Tama County’s new naturalist and an alleged lack of programming dominated public comment during the Wednesday, May 7 meeting of the Board of Conservation. “On March 24, I ...
Editor’s Note: This is the second and sixth stories in a series of nine first published by the Times-Republican newspaper honoring the 32 men from Grundy, Hardin, Marshall and Tama counties who perished during the Vietnam War including one man considered as missing-in-action. From Nov. 1, ...
Miss Amaya Peterson, 2024 Tama County Fair Queen has been representing Tama County at fair activities, parades and other activities throughout the year. Her reign will soon be coming to an end. Peterson is the daughter of Loni and James Droigk of Gladbrook. She attended Gladbrook-Reinbeck ...