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South Tama schools long-term debt limited to building cost

Debt for the South Tama School District is entirely for building construction according to the annual Iowa Debt Report issued by the office of State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald.As the report reflects, the elementary school constructed in 2006 and the high school addition and remodeling ...

South Tama Middle School 2nd quarter perfect attendance

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Norton family provides books for South Tama Elementary

The children of Phyllis Elizabeth Norton donated $1,000 worth of new books to the South Tama Elementary Library in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday on September 25, 2017. Phyllis and her husband, Herbert Norton Sr., opened a music store in Tama in 1958. Their children Linda ...

South Tama schools staff undergo A.L.I.C.E. training

South Tama County schools employees received ALICE training on Wednesday, Jan. 3. ALICE is the acronym for Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate. The training emphasizes procedures for active or violent intruder incidents. Early in the fall, the STC High School had a threat of violence and a ...

South Tama students selected to Honor Band

Eight students from South Tama Middle and High School were recently selected to take part in the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association Honor Band held each year in Oelwein the first Saturday in December.The festival selects outstanding musicians from 7th and 8th Grades for the Middle School ...

STC Special Education improvements highlighted

South Tama schools special education programs are getting a thorough review with an action plan to meet with and survey parents, involve the students and provide added support for staff. Kym Stein, hired as the district special education director in October, and Superintendent Jeff Berger told ...

Project 60, Report Card, to use social media

It's been a bit since the last column. It seems to go that way once you get past October with all of the holidays. So this column is a little bit of everything.Thanks to those of you who came out to our Project 60 event. We had, by our estimate, around 220 of you attending and it was great to ...

South Tama Middile School November Students of the Month

Ian Vore (5th): Congratulations to Ian Vore for winning November's Student of the Month. He has showed respect, responsibility, and building relationships. Ian Vore is 10 years old. He is in 5th grade. He has three sisters named Linsie, Skyler, and Ashton Vore. His parents' names are Jeff and ...

Know what a trebuchet is? South Tama students build and test

How far will it go? Teachers and students gathered recently to answer that question. South Tama physics teacher, Danny Mayo, along with his physics class and Jeff Niedermann and his metals class began learning about and building trebuchets this semester. The students work was displayed in a ...