Toledo Legionnaire Martin Christensen holds the flag staff during a firing sqaud salute on the Tama County Courthouse Square on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25. Events were curtailed or cancelled in many places due to Covid-19 regulations this year. News-Chronicle photos/John Speer
IOWA CITY (The LINK) - In these uncertain days of social distancing and staying at home, Iowans are turning to their gardens in record numbers. Whether planting productive gardens for food security or planting flowers for beauty and solace (usually both), the numbers are up: home improvement ...
AMES- Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will offer a two-part online workshop in the spring and fall of 2020 for anyone interested in learning more about identifying and foraging local mushrooms. The first spring workshop will be held on May 5 from 6-7 p.m.The workshops will be ...
Urbandale - Eggs are never more top of mind than during the Easter season. In fact, last year, Americans ate more than 2.9 billion eggs, and at retail, 242 million dozen eggs were sold. Iowa egg farmers worked diligently to feed this appetite for ever-popular eggs through the 2019 Easter season ...
Christian Publishing Books has released Author Jean Posusta's third major publication, I See You with My Heart.A native of Vining and a 1969 graduate of South Tama Hgih School, Jean was a 37-year employee of the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo. Her previous books are Twisted Winds of Verango and ...
On Sunday, March 15, Fraternal Order of the Eagles Grand Madam President Gloria Williams visit Tama-Toledo FOE 2828. The day started with a "Meet and Greet" followed by a "Welcome to Tama" with Tama Mayor Doug Ray welcoming her ot our city. FOE Western Central Regional President Brenda ...
Opera Iowa, which was scheduled to perform at the Wieting on April 28 of this year has been cancelled.Because of the current pandemic, Opera Iowa felt compelled to cancel its entire spring tour. PEO DF has been able to reschedule them to Tuesday, April 27, 2021 for both the elementary workshops ...
The Toledo GFWC Womens Club met on March 10, 2020. There were 10 present. Earlene Bacon, Nancy Carson, Marlene Eernisse, Arlene Gerlach, Karen Havran, Alice Holtz,Sylvia Johnson, Donna Lasser, Ann McMullin and Carolyn Anderson.Donna called the meeting to order, We gave the Pledge to the ...
Area residents of Tama-Toledo and surrounding towns will have the chance to see one of Iowa's premier performing arts organizations when OPERA, Iowa, Des Moines Metro Opera's educational touring troupe, arrives on April 28. During the day, the troupe will be leading workshops for the elementary ...
"I like crime, comedy and horror, it all blends together pretty well," Toledo author and artist Michael Davis said in a September, 2019, Chronicle interview.Well, New York publisher Anthony Knott also does. After catching Michael's work on the Yellow Mama webzine - an internet-based magazine ...