The Gladbrook Lions met on Feb. 21st for a supper meeting at Spanky’s. President Darrell Paustian showed the Lion eye glasses and hearing aid boxes he has placed in the churches, nursing home, bank, and pharmacy. Everyone was pleased that there has been a lot of glasses and hearing aids ...
Views of conflicting law enforcement issues covering the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County may be settled by the Iowa Supreme Court. On Jan. 31, the Iowa Attorney General's Office filed an application for a Supreme Court review of a case brought by Meskwaki Nation Tribal Police and thrown out ...
This has been an unprecedented year of extreme weather, with twelve canceled days of school and a total of 86.62 hours of school missed as of my submission of this article to the newspapers on February 25.Most adults that grew up in Iowa can probably remember one or two especially bad years ...
Tama County Supervisors set a public hearing on the proposed $26.9 million 2019-20 county budget for Monday, March 11, at 10 a.m. in the supervisors meeting room in the Administration Building, 104 West State St., Toledo. Supervisors met in regular session on Tuesday, Feb. 19, because of ...
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig was a featured speaker during the Ag Street 2019 seminar held recently at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel. Naig focused his thoughts on the variability and extremes facing agriculture. The weather in 2018 showed Bloomfield with 8” below average in ...
Tama County has the potential for landowners/operators of agricultural land to receive cost-share for the installation of conservation practices. Conservation practices generally fall into two groups. One of these groups is structural practices such as ponds, terraces, grassed waterways, water ...
Before Judge Fae Hoover-Grinde in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Osman Abukar Hassan, 36, Tama, entered a written Alford Plea to a charge of assault with intent to inflict serious injury. An Alford Plea is not an admission of guilt but recognizes the prosecution likely has enough ...
GMG Radio Broadcasting Team WKRD performed at the prestigious All State Large Group event on February 16. The event is sponsored by the Iowa High School Speech Association and was held at Iowa State University. Members of the team are Connor Casto, Zoe Duncan, Ethan Karsjen, Frances Jackson and ...
Tama County District Court Before Judge Paul D. Miller in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Redmon Lee Keahna, 33, Tama, admitted violation of terms of probation. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, credited for 90 days already served and discharged from probation. He was ...
It’s the first of February and the boss (Jo) says I need to get a letter to the editor done. For our friends who read this down South, we are just coming off all time record lows here in Iowa. Last week we hit -30 to -35 with 20 to 30 MPH winds and in some cases higher than that for a wind ...