Monday morning the Tama county Board of Supervisors approved a resolution for a public hearing for the sale of the Tama County Home. A hearing on the proposed sale of the Tama County Home will take place on September 12th, at 10:00 a.m.. This will be in the Tama County Supervisors room, the ...
NOAA's National Weather Service has recognized Tama County Emergency Management as a StormReady county. The StormReady program helps community leaders and residents prepare for hazardous weather and flooding. StormReady sites have made a strong commitment to implement plans and resources in an ...
Editor, As a continuation of the information provided in my letter to the editor early June, I said I would further share with the GR School District’s constituents regarding the prior often used concept of conferring with past board leadership and school board members on critical and/or ...
REINBECK - The air was hot and stagnant in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Junior/Senior High School auditorium this week as about 90 people gathered for a meeting of the G-R Dissolution Commission. The seven commission members sat on stage, facing the auditorium. They had three goals for the night: ...
August 13th is Iowa’s NF Walk in Iowa City. While you may have never heard of NF, or neurofibromatosis, you live every day next to people who have it or whose lives are affected by it. Just recently, Tate Koester, a three year old in the Gladbrook community, was diagnosed with NF1. NF ...
Monday morning the Tama County Board of Supervisors, Larry Vest, Kendall Jordan and Dan Anderson, opened the sealed bids for the sale of the old Tama County Home building and land. Two bids were received. The low bid was from Lawrence Husak, Toledo for $5000, and the high bid was from Billy ...
Here we are in August Corn Carnival and the 4-H Fair are done and the State Fair is this week. Summer is about over and school is starting in a few weeks. Let's go back to the 4-H Fair first. I really enjoy watching all the 4-H kids showing their projects both livestock and non livestock ...
Dear Editor,I pass through the small town of Laurel at least twice a week on our way to visit my wife's mother in Newton. I have watched as a building project at the school progresses. And more than once (actually nearly every time) as I pass by I ask myself , "How can this small community ...
Letter to the Editor.This is what I shared at the GR School Board Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.GR School Board Members,At the GR School Board meeting held on May 19, 2016, during discussion regarding a potential parking lot and driveway improvement project at the GR Elementary ...
The Gladbrook City Council held their regular monthly meeting on May 9, 2016. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM, and the consent agenda was approved. In new business, Doug Gethmann spoke to the council about wanting to insert culverts, a pond, and a covered bridge. A project update was ...