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Shopko aids Toledo Public Library

Shopko manager Robin Ortiz presents a $250 check on behalf of the Shopko Foundation to Sherry McFate, assistant librarian at the Toledo Public Library. Shopko employee and also a Toledo Library assistant Deb Kern is at left. This Shopko Foundation funding will be used by the library to support ...

Ross Street Roasting, Brewhemia team up

New rural-urban business partnership formed to advance specialty coffee in IowaRoss Street Roasting Co., located in Tama, recently sold a stake of their company to Cedar Rapids-based Brewhemia, a Specialty/Third Wave coffee shop. Ross Street Roasting had been supplying Brewhemia with a ...

First annual “National Farm Rescuer Day” to be recognized

HORACE, N.D. - Farm Rescue, a nonprofit organization that provides planting, harvesting or haying assistance free of charge to farm and ranch families who have experienced a major illness, injury or natural disaster, has received an annual day of recognition by National Day Calendar, an ...

Central Iowa Firewood expands to former Van Wall John Deere location in Tama

In 2000 Luke Squiers, rural Tama, started in the logging business. In 2014, along with his father Brian, Luke added a "Blockbuster Firewood Processor.""On good diameter logs, I can cut six pickup loads (of firewood) an hour," Luke said then of the $52,000 machine, manufactured in Mt. Pleasant, ...

Independent Insurance named 2017 I.M.T. Gem Agency

The I.M.T. Group, a leading provider of personal and commercial insurance products in the Midwest, recently announced its list of 2017 Gem Agencies, distinguishing Independent Insurance as one of the qualifying recipients.The IMT Group is proud to recognize Independent Insurance, Toledo, as one ...

Grants available to help promote speciality crops

DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey is reminding Iowans that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is accepting applications for grant funding through the Specialty Crop Block Grant program. The grants are available to support projects that enhance the ...

Tama Soil-Water Commission to meet March 9

The next regular meeting of the Tama Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners will be held on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at 8:00 a.m. at the District Office, located at 102 Highway 30 West in Toledo.Agenda items include: approval of minutes from previous meetings, public participation, ...

Tama Co. Cattlemen’s banquet is Saturday

On February 25, the Tama County Cattlemen will be hosting their annual banquet at the Gladbrook Memorial Building.The evening will begin with social hour at 5:30, followed by a prime rib dinner at 6:30. The evening's entertainment will feature Mike Pearson, host of Iowa Public Television's ...

Slechta named Master Editor-Publisher

Ron Slechta, Kalona, was honored as a Master Editor-Publisher at the 2017 Iowa Newspaper?Association convention in Des Moines on Feb. 3.Slechta, and his wife Helen, recently sold The Kalona News, The Lone Tree Reporter and The Highland Review which they had published since 1992.Previously they ...