By Joyce Wiese Tama County Supervisors met Monday morning, September 28, with Kendall Jordan and Dan Anderson being present. Larry Vest has been absent last week and this week due to Jury duty. County Engineer Lyle Brehm asked for a change of date for the Meskwaki Glow Run. A resolution was ...
By John Speer Central Iowa Press jspeer@tamatoledonews.com “This started four years ago when I was fishing off a river bridge,” Jim Eberhart of Toledo said. He was netting about one-half the fish he was catching - the rest were lost off the hook. The experience led to a four-years of ...
By: Kathryn Wild It’s that time of the year again: Gladbrook-Reinbeck Homecoming. Homecoming is where everyone celebrates how great our football team is doing, letting everyone get in on the fun. This year’s theme is Rock the Redhawks because of this week’s rival, North Tama. The high ...
On September 21, 2015, the Garwin Volunteer Fire Department received a Hometown Challenge Grant Award from Alliant Energy for $1500.00. In order to qualify for the grant, the Fire Department had to hold two separate community fund raising events with the grant award matching up to $1500.00 of ...
Dear Editor and G-R Fans,When I'm working in the den and Bruce is watching football in the living room, I can usually tell how the Bears are doing. If he's yelling a lot, I know the Bears aren't playing well (I know, some would say that's most of the time.) I'm not sure why (because I know they ...
Dear Editor,I want to put into writing how proud everyone should feel for the fantastic turnout we had supporting our students, that's what this is all about. Not saving our communities, but saving our students education. Our district voters are GR-8. Students and education first, I'm sure ...
Dear Editor,Over a year ago my attorney notified "Energy Transfer Partners, LP, DBA Bakken Pipeline, LLC, DBA Dakota Access LLC, by letter that I was NOT interested in having a pipeline on my property. Many times since then Dakota Access LLC persisted wanting to survey my property and I always ...
Dear Editor and G-R Fans, When I’m working in the den and Bruce is watching football in the living room, I can usually tell how the Bears are doing. If he’s yelling a lot, I know the Bears aren’t playing well (I know, some would say that’s most of the time.) I’m not sure why (because ...
Monday morning the Tama County Board of supervisors met with Larry Vest being absent. Vest was absent due to being called for jury duty. The Meskwaki Nation is planning a fun run for Domestic Violence Awareness on Friday, October 16, 2015. They have requested a temporary road closure for a ...
The Gladbrook City Council held their regular monthly meeting on September 14, 2015 at 7:00. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Keith Sash at 7:00. After the approval of the consent agenda, a public hearing regarding a fence variance at 101 1st street took place. After much discussion, ...