During the summer months, I enjoy going barefoot and dipping my feet into the lake. My husband and I experience our own version of a pedicure when we wade in a shallow sandbar and the minnows swimming there nibble on our toes. It scared me at first – and grossed me out to be honest – to ...
30 Years Ago August 11, 1989 The Gladbrook City Council authorized the refurbishing of the tennis court in the City Park. The courts are painted green with the secondary boundary painted in white and the rest of the court is painted in red. Gladbrook was printed on the south wall. ...
Gladbrook's only grocery store, Hometown Foods, is up for sale by owners Lyndon and Joani Johnson along with their four other locations as the couple hopes to spend more time with loved ones."Joani and I have decided to offer our Hometown Foods grocery stores for sale this year," Lyndon Johnson ...
Tama County District Court Before Judge Jason D. Besler in Tama County District Court in Toledo: LeRoy Thomas Paul Hayes III, 32, Waterloo, entered an Alford Plea to a charge of 2nd degree arson. An Alford plea is not an admission of guilt but recognizes the prosecution is believed to ...
From the infamous Wing Ding in Clear Lake to a Mom’s Demand Action gun reform forum in Des Moines and soap boxing at the Iowa State Fair, presidential candidates have kept busy in the state of Iowa this weekend. Three presidential candidates also made stops at the 105th Annual Meskwaki Powwow ...
“Being able to enforce nuisance laws at the lake,” is the aim of a group of Union Grove Lake home owners attorney Mike Marquess told the Tama County Board of Supervisors on Monday. More than a dozen of the group were on hand to back their request to rezone the lake from residential (R-1) to ...
I was raised on a family farm in Northern Tama County within close proximity of a beautiful county park. Growing up, my family also had access to a large timber area near our farm, along with a good number of wooded acres along Wolf Creek. I spent countless hours hiking in the woods, mountain ...
Tama County District Court Before Judge Mary E. Chicchelly in Tama County District Court in Toledo: Erik Lee Barker Head, 28, Tama, pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of 1st offense public intoxication. He received a suspended 30-day jail sentence, was fined and assessed court costs ...
“An accurate count, we want to get right,” John Cook, a partnership specialist for the eight-state region for the U.S. Census headquartered in Chicago, told the Tama County Board of Supervisors at their regular weekly meeting on Monday morning, Aug. 5. Cook asked supervisors to form a ...
10 YEARS AGO AUGUST 20, 2009 Presbyterian church loaded a semi donated by Scott & Chris Schildroth bound for Ky. G-R Athletic Booster Club held a golf tournament. Marie Martins will celebrate her 90th birthday on August 9 at Westview Estates. Harriett Schultz and Marion White were ...