A projected hike of 15 or more students at the South Tama Elementary School level has administrators and the school board looking at adding an additional classroom for the 2019-20 school year which begins today.Supt. Jared Smith told the school board at their regular meeting on Monday, Aug. 19, ...

The two classrooms damaged in an Aug. 6 fire at the South Tama Middle School were back in action Friday morning for the start of the 2019-20 school year as was the rest of the building.It took just about "round the clock effort" since the blaze and resulting smoke and soot damage for the clean ...

Award Day 2019Summer Reading is officially over for this year! Everyone had a great time and the kids did a lot of reading.The winner of the four Adventureland tickets this year was Tay Sanders. The winners of the guessing jar were Isabel Gomez and Carter Lyon.All together the kids read and ...

Kayden Jiminez has been easy to spot on Tama streets this summer since he found a can of gold paint in his dad's garage and put it to use on his bike and even the tires. He rode his "golden transportation" to the raising of big top at the circus in Tama on Friday morning, Aug. 16. Some bike ...

Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 1919 U.S., Army's convoy across the United States on the Lincoln Highway will be observed in Tama this Friday, Aug. 23. when the 2019 convoy stops at the Lincoln Highway Bridge and Tama American Legion on East 5th Street.Based upon the route ...

There will be something for everyone in the South Tama County Marching Band Show this fall. The show is called "Decades" and features songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.Four songs will make up the show including The Animal's "House of the Rising Sun", Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," ...

"If we are doing something that involves uncertainty, attention, struggle and change we are going to feel fear!" This quote was said by Trevor Ragan in a podcast called The Learner Lab in which Ragan is the host. He is also the founder of an organization called Train Ugly.Through his ...

The Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway, managed by Prairie Rivers of Iowa, is welcoming the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) to Iowa. MVPA is departing on a 100th Anniversary Convoy across the United States with 65 or more historic military vehicles retracing the original 1919 U.S. ...

Tama-Toledo Lions are supporting the South Tama County High School Blue Crew. On hand for the presentation of a donation were Lions Earl Rutledge and Mike Richardson, Blue Crew sponsor Tammy Weiss, Lion John Willett, Blue Crew members Jaelin Berger (graduated in 2019), Jayden Graff and Lion ...

It was early morning June 7, 1920 when the first Field Secretary of the Lincoln Highway Association Henry Ostermann awakened early leaving his newlywed wife in Tama to attend a meeting in Marshalltown. In his haste, he passed a slower motorist on a Lincoln Highway curve east of Montour, losing ...