OTTER CREEK LAKE – Fallout from Tama County’s general fund shortfall has now cut deeper into the Conservation budget. During the Thursday, March 13, meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, director Curtis Behrens told board members that in addition to the $100,000 the Board of ...
TOLEDO — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) gathered law enforcement professionals from the Tama, Toledo, Dysart and Meskwaki Nation police departments as well as the Tama County Sheriff’s Office for what she described as “a working lunch” at Murph’s Creamery and Grill in Toledo over ...
REINBECK – Tama County American Legion and Auxiliary will hold their joint meeting on Tuesday, March 25, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at the Reinbeck Post Home. Tama County Government Day Chairman, Trudi Scott, will be at the meeting to talk about the upcoming Government Day set for Wednesday, ...
TOLEDO – As the small faction of present locals chatted among themselves before last week's supervisors meeting held on Monday, March 10, others joined to watch the event via the public livestream for the first time. The meeting had a miniature agenda compared to previous weeks, which kept ...
TOLEDO – The development of utility-scale solar in Tama County appears to have wilted in the late winter sun. There was a notable lack of public attendance at the most recent meeting of the Tama County Zoning Commission on March 4, with only six audience seats occupied – a sixfold ...
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 ...
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 ...