TOLEDO – Last Monday morning, as the fall breeze rattled the trees, the usual group of attendees got together for the weekly board of supervisors meeting. Starting off like usual, County Engineer Ben Daleske reported that Denco is coming to town this week to do some work on E36 and K ...
VINING – After being injured in a serious car accident earlier this year, Vining residents Arlo and Nancy Cibula recently received a solid win by way of a completely free, new septic system – arriving just in time for SepticSmart Week – and it’s all thanks to the efforts of County ...
TRAER – Under the star-studded night sky last Wednesday at Traer Ripley UCC’s new venue The Parsonage, Times-Republican managing editor Robert Maharry temporarily left his day job behind to moonlight as a singer-songwriter, performing a variety of folk rock classics plus some original ...
BROWNWOOD, Texas. – A team of Iowa 4-H members brought home a fifth-place award this summer in a national wildlife habitat management competition. The team of Lauren Keller, Wyatt Silhanek and Josey Wacha competed in the National Wildlife Habitat Education Program contest in Brownwood, ...
TOLEDO – After waking up to a bright sunny morning last Monday, multiple local citizens gathered to attend the week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting on Sept. 16. Starting off with the County Engineer like usual, it was reported that Iowa Bridge and Culvert have finished up on F ...
Farm Bureau members from across the state departed their Iowa farms for Washington, D.C., Sept. 10-12, to meet with their elected officials and agency representatives. Members shared personal stories and examples of how important ag issues impact their farms, including the critical need for the ...
GLADBROOK – On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2024, the employees at First Interstate Bank (FIB) engaged in a company wide Volunteer Day. Volunteer Day is simply a way for FIB to concentrate and magnify the effort of the First Interstate employees, who give to the places where they live and ...
Lincoln Savings Bank introduces the newest addition to its team, Carson Wobeter. Wobeter joined LSB on July 29 as an Ag and Commercial Lender, serving the Lincoln, Garwin and Tama locations. Wobeter comes to LSB with a strong background in agriculture, holding a degree in Agribusiness from ...
TOLEDO – It seems turbulence has yet again hit the highly controversial Salt Creek Wind project. For at least 15 years, a commercial wind energy project going by the name of Salt Creek Wind has been in some stage of development in central Tama County by either Wind Capital Group (prior to ...
TAMA – Construction at Tama-Toledo Christian School was in full swing late last month when the newspaper stopped by for an update. From the framing of the first floor to exterior brickwork, the former Catholic church building on Oswego Street was teeming with activity. "The beginning of ...