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Bending with the wind

This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting saw a pivotal turn in the epic wind turbine saga. After years of fighting, litigation, and back-and-forth, the supervisors agreed to enter into a settlement agreement with Salt Creek Wind LLC that will allow their project to move forward ...

Angie from the block

If you haven't been uptown in Toledo lately, taking a stroll or checking out the farmer's market, then you might have missed it – the new addition to the community skyline. A little store called Angie Blocker Designs, operated by, you guessed it, local woman Angie Blocker at 103 W. High ...

Doing this Together

Sometimes it takes a village, and recently, this village just got slightly bigger. The mental health services of Together We Can (TWC) have come to Tama to offer help. Moving into the Tama Prairie Ridge office at 413 McClellan St., every Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Together We Can is ...

Together We Can opens Friday in Tama

TAMA — Together We Can, a peer support agency based in Marshalltown, is expanding to Tama County. It will be in the Prairie Ridge office located at 413 McClellan St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday's. Together We Can offers one-on-one peer support and educational groups and classes. it will ...

‘A real community event’

CHELSEA — As Windy Goat Acres just outside of Chelsea continues to gain notoriety and acclaim around the state and the country for its idyllic setting in Iowa’s Bohemian Alps and unique array of events, the facility hosted its first official concert featuring indie folk artists Dan ...

Frosted Bliss Bakery coming to downtown Toledo

The floors are partially only done, the paint is still wet, tools lay about, and there's cookies galore. Crudely written across the glass window you pass is the store name, Frosted Bliss. It's still bare bones, it's still a work in progress, but it has cookies. This is Toledo's newest ...

One retreat to rule them all

CHELSEA — Walking around slick with elf sweat, the hair on your hobbit feet matted down with sultry dew, the day may have been hotter than the fires of Mount Doom, but that couldn't dampen the spirit of the third annual Hobbits and Elves Immersive Fantasy Retreat. On the outskirts of ...

Grants for 90 projects to improve consumer access to E15 in Iowa announced

DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced that the Iowa Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program Board recently approved an additional 90 applications from Iowa fuel retailers to support new and expanded ethanol infrastructure projects. These investments help drivers save ...

Iowa Pharmacy Association Recognizes 50-Year Pharmacists

The Iowa Pharmacy Association recognizeS the following pharmacists who have achieved the milestone of 50 years of professional practice and service to the people of Iowa. Presented at IPA’s 2025 Annual Meeting on June 5 in Des Moines, this award honors Iowa pharmacists for their dedication to ...