Over the past two years, driver’s license customers throughout the state of Iowa have become accustomed to calling ahead for appointments rather than waiting in line with a number to be served. The shift to appointment-based service began as a public health measure during the COVID-19 ...
The afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 22 was a long and heated one for members of the Traer Fire Department as they led the response to an extensive 64-acre field fire southeast of Buckingham that would eventually take seven hours to extinguish. The fire – which originated on the north side of a ...
UnityPoint Health–Grinnell Regional Medical Center (GRMC) was awarded the Center of Excellence Grant by the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) for the 2022-2023 calendar year. The $212,500 grant is a targeted continuation of the IDPH grant of the same name, with the initial planning ...
Tama Co. Public Health and Home Care will be hosting monthly Coffee Talks beginning in November. On November 9, the public is invited to a Coffee Talk set to be held at the Gladbrook Legion beginning at 1:30 p.m. November’s topic is Colds/Influenza. Please join us! For more information ...
While the matter of the Otter Creek Lake Restoration project has been ‘old business’ for the Tama County Board of Conservation for some time now, with contactor Rachel Construction finally back on-site in Otter Creek Lake and Park as of last week, that old business has become welcome ...
The Iowa District Court of Tama County made a ruling on October 6 for the case Richard W. Arp vs. the Board of Supervisors of Tama County, Iowa, determining an oral argument was unnecessary. Plaintiff Richard Arp of Dysart filed a petition for declaratory judgment against the Defendant Tama ...
On Monday, Oct. 10, the Tama County Zoning Committee met for the second time to discuss the county's Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) ordinance. Unfortunately, with only two members present, Doug Dvorak and Wade Mitchell, the number needed to complete the quorum was unmet, and the Committee ...
Sun Courier note: Ahead of the November 8 General Election, Tama-Grundy Publishing sent out questionnaires to all of the declared candidates in the contested races in Tama County. Last week, we printed responses from candidates for the Iowa House of Representatives. This week we focus on Tama ...
Sun Courier note: Ahead of the November 8 General Election, Tama-Grundy Publishing sent out questionnaires to all of the declared candidates in the contested races in Tama County. Last week, we printed responses from candidates for the Iowa House of Representatives. This week we focus on Tama ...
Bound volumes of past issues of the Northern-Sun Print newspaper made the journey from Tama back to Gladbrook last Thursday with the help of local volunteers Jeanne Paustian and Terri Luehring. It was a fitting end on the morning of October 6 to a precarious few years for archives of a ...