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STC Music sees success at State solo and ensemble contest

On Saturday March 25, STC Vocal and Instrumental Music students spent the day at Grinnell High School competing in the Iowa High School Music Association State Solo and Ensemble Festival. Performers, sometimes joined with piano accompaniment, began preparing works of music months ago to be ...

The beating art of STC

When you walk down the hallways of the South Tama County High School, what you'll notice before anything else is the art, proudly displayed on a table next to the front office, donning the concrete walls, and even decorating the windows of teachers' classrooms. This is the work of the Art ...

STC Middle School students receive Golden Achievement Awards

The Tama-Toledo Kiwanis Club held their annual Golden Achievement Awards banquet for South Tama County Community School District Middle School students on Tuesday, March 21 at the Tama-Toledo Country Club in Tama. Sixteen students were chosen by the STC Middle School teachers based on a ...

The play must go on

"The play must go on" is a phrase that has been used over and over since the 19th century, but rarely has it been more applicable than this spring here at South Tama County High School. The drama department was originally slated to perform “August: Osage County,” a Pulitzer Prize ...

The Safe Track to success

In light of yet another horrific school shooting, this time in Nashville, Tenn., school safety and security are back in the spotlight, and teachers, administrators and law enforcement officials are taking it more seriously than ever before, even at places like South Tama County. What ...

Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge

On Tuesday, March 21, the annual Prom Dodgeball Tournament returned to the STC Roundhouse. The event is the biggest fundraiser the Prom Committee puts on, and teams of up to 12 signed up and paid to be a part of the action. Two months of planning went into making the event a success for ...

STC alum graduates from FBI academy

QUANTICO, Va. — Major Thomas Cooper, the son of Randy and Connie Cooper of rural Toledo and a Class of 2000 STC graduate, was one of 247 law enforcement officers from across the country to graduate from the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. on March 16. Cooper currently oversees ...

Trojan trio takes talents to All-State Individual Speech

TAMA — Everyone who gets involved in individual speech at the high school level takes their own journey, but only a select few end theirs at the All-State Festival on the UNI campus in Cedar Falls. It’s especially rare for a relatively small school district to send three performers to ...

STC Middle School vocal music to perform at festival in Ames

The Midwest Children's Choir Festival will be held on Friday, March 31, 2023, in Stephens Auditorium in Ames at 7 p.m. The South Tama Middle School vocal department under the direction of Christine McFate will participate in the Midwest Children’s Choir Festival. Students participating in the ...

STC School Board discusses hiring SRO

During Monday night’s meeting, the South Tama County Board of Education discussed hiring a full-time School Resource Officer, with Superintendent John Cain and Toledo Chief of Police Dan Quigley presenting a rough draft of policies pertaining to a possible SRO at the schools. School ...