TOLEDO – During the October 16 Tama County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, birds were the main subject of debate. A resolution was on the docket to designate Tama County as a Bird Friendly Iowa community – a statewide program supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to promote ...
GLADBROOK – The Senior Citizens Dinner will be held on Friday, Nov. 10 beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Memorial Building. Westbrook Acers is hosting the dinner. Call Jeanne to make reservations at 641-751-2039.
Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Abe (Douglas) Dieleman of rural Toledo and Dylan Hosek of rural Traer have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Abe is a Green ...
Farmers at the Mid-Iowa Cooperative, Midway location, were pleasantly surprised with a sack lunch provided by the Coop recently. Marshall County Pork Producers President and Mid-Iowa employee, Darrel Burt, grilled the delicious pork burgers. This is an annual event sponsored by the Coop to ...
TOLEDO – During the October meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, a new policy regarding the placement of memorial benches in county parks was approved in the wake of public comments made at previous board meetings. The board unanimously approved the new policy during the ...
TOLEDO – Not much was on the Tama County Board of Supervisors’ agenda on October 9. As usual, the Monday meeting started off with the Tama County Engineer giving his weekly report. The engineer said that the work on the Toledo Deer Creek Bridge is going as expected with the dirt crew ...
The Northwest Tama County Ministerial Association held the 2023 Crop Walk on October 8. Churches participating included: Gladbrook MC, Christ Lutheran Church, Peace Church, Garwin Valley Community Church, Salem of Lincoln and Chapel Church. Crop Walks are ecumenical, interfaith community ...
MARSHALLTOWN – The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team (MIYBT) held its monthly meeting on October 1, 2023, at the Marshall County Extension Office. The team was honored to host guest speakers, Iowa State University professors, Dr. Miranda Culbertson and Dr. Brad Skaar. Dr. Culbertson first shared ...
TOLEDO – Renowned local artist and Tama-Grundy Publishing cartoonist, columnist and correspondent Michael D. Davis has his work on display at the front of the Toledo Public Library for the entire month of October, and the exhibit is free and open to the public. Readers know Davis, an STC ...
TAMA COUNTY – An area of east-central Iowa located in and around Tama County that is suffering from exceptional drought — the worst dryness designation — more than doubled in size last week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Dry conditions were mostly unchanged across the state ...