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Tama County News

Tama SWCD to host free upcoming cover crop and livestock event

TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “Above, Below & Cattle: the ABCs of soil health and profitability.” It will be held on Tuesday, February 13 at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center, 1007 S. Prospect Drive in Toledo from 9 a.m. to 2 ...

Snow and reports

TOLEDO – Few ventured out into the cold blowing snow of last Monday morning for the Jan. 15 Tama Co. Board of Supervisors meeting. County Engineer Ben Daleske wandered out of the white abyss to give his report, saying that they were out plowing snow and had gotten the paved routes open. ...

Bru finalist for 2024 Iowa Youth Pork Leadership Team

Sun Courier note: Since this story went to press, Lilly Bru was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen. A story about her crowning will print in a future edition. GLADBROOK – Rural Gladbrook resident and GMG High School senior Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru was recently announced as one of eight ...

Iowa and the Big Snow(s)

The story last week was certainly the weather as two significant winter storms clobbered Iowa – the first blowing through Monday into Tuesday with a heavy, wet snow, and the second arriving Friday into Saturday with blizzard conditions and bitter cold. The snowstorms combined dumped ...

Trump takes Tama County

TAMA COUNTY – In the end, it really wasn’t much of a contest. Much like the rest of Iowa, Republican caucusgoers in Tama County overwhelmingly favored one candidate Monday night for the 2024 presidential nominee – former president Donald Trump who garnered more than 58% of the caucus ...

New K-8 private Christian school aims to start classes in Tama Co. in 2025

TAMA COUNTY – Following the passage of the Students First Act which was signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds in late January last year, a group of Tama County residents began working to expand the educational options available to students in grades K-8 by founding a private, accredited ...

Tama Co. Supervisors talk snow

TOLEDO – Weather was the talk of the Tama Co. Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, Jan. 8. Predictions of sunny skies to mountains of fluffy cotton ball snow were thrown around. Using caution, the supervisors made the decision to close the county offices on Tuesday, Jan. 9. The engineer ...

Ike’s shooting range 2024 training class set for Jan. 30

​​The Izaak Walton Shooting Facility is a restricted use facility requiring training on rules and regulations prior to use. A class to review rules and regulations is scheduled at 6 p.m. on Jan. 30 with a snow date of Jan. 31. The class will be held at the Tama County nature center at Otter ...

Tama Co. precincting board’s new supervisor map

TOLEDO – The three local citizens that make up Tama County’s precincting board showed up at half past eight on Monday, Jan. 8 for a meeting to approve the final version of the new supervisor district maps which move the county from three supervisors to five. The appointed board members ...

2024 Spring Master Gardener training offered

TAMA COUNTY – The application window is opening January 15 for the 2024 Spring Master Gardener training cohort, which will be offered in 29 counties or extension regions. Iowans wishing to become Master Gardener volunteers choose a county to complete training through, participate in ...