The next Tama County Economic Development Pitch and Build Competition will be held on Tuesday, November 19, 2013, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Reinig Center in Toledo. It features extraordinary Tama County entrepreneurs who will pitch their business idea to a group of business leaders ...
Job seekers are invited to a Job Fair on Thursday, Nov. 14, from 1-5 p.m. at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel Veterans Convention Center.There will be 22 area employers on hand.The National Career Readiness Certificate Testing will be taking place from 9 a.m. - noon at the Convention ...
What was reputed to be Tama County's first motel has fallen on hard times. The Toledo City?Council ordered the doors and windows of the closed property boarded up at the regular council meeting on Monday, Oct. 28.Safety concerns and reports of persons and animals entering the rooms made at ...
This past spring the Iowa legislature passed, and the Governor signed, into law Senate File 295. This law involved a number of changes to the property tax system, especially for commercial and industrial property. This includes: a business property tax credit, rollbacks for commercial and ...
FOREST CITY- Winnebago Industries, Inc. has announced the promotion of Brion Brady to the position of National Sales Manager of Winnebago Towables.Brady is a native of Tama, and graduated from Waldorf College, Forest City, with a Business Degree in Finance. He is the son of Rosemary and the ...
"People try them, they close their eyes and say: "I remember sitting in my car and eating them"- only now they're sitting in Bumblebees," Karen Musgrave said last week. You may remember them from the 1950s or into the 1980s.In any case, 40 years may have past since the first Toledo tastee ...
Tama County's newest attraction, Oak Ridge Motocross, located between Montour and Garwin opened for a practice run on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13. Operated by Jon Kriegel, the new development features a professionally designed, state of the art layout. Watch for a full story upcoming.
Fall is finally here! The air is cooler, the leaves are changing color, and soon the sidewalks will be full of little ghosts, goblins and princesses! As we get ready for trick or treating, Shopko is asking for help decorating the store on U.S. Highway 63 South (South County Road) in ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October."The widespread rain received last week was very welcome after the ...
Tama County Supervisors approved a deferment of 2012 property taxes for Iowa Premium Beef during their regular meeting on Monday, Sept. 23.John Stewart, CEO for IPB, was present for the meeting. Stewart had requested to defer their 2012 property taxes until May, 2014. Supervisors felt this was ...