Garwin area children were recently treated to Pink Stew Entertainment and their program about therapy dogs and the Alaskan Iditarod, a dog sled race across 1,049 miles of Alaskan wilderness.Pink Stew Entertainment also brought therapy dog, Emmett, for the children to meet. Emmett is a part ...
A?"Meet and Greet" for three new South Tama Schools administrators is set for Thursday, July, 26, from 5-7 p.m. at the STC?Elementary, 1611 Country Club Dr., Tama. Superintendent Jared Smith, Elementary Principal Brad Schweppe and Director of Curriculum and Student Services Shauna Smith will be ...
The Toledo High School Class 0f 1953 met at noon on June14 for their 65 year class reunion at the Meskwaki Casino. Front row-left to right: Colleen (Ferneau) Davis, Della (Vore) Vavroch, Marilyn (Bryan) Hach, Evelyn (Rayman) McCreary, Darlene (Mattingly) Youngman, Nancy (Rhodes) Long, and Lyle ...
For Summer Reading Week Two, Tuesday's group had a visit from Logan Roberts our Tama County Naturalist. She did a great program on Animal & Nature Sounds.Logan would play a nature sound on her laptop and we had to guess what it was. It was great fun!She also brought a bobcat pelt and ...
Mankato, Minn. The Academic High Honor and Honor lists (Dean's lists) for the past spring semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato have been announced by Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Marilyn Wells.They include: Courtney Anderson, Toledo, Junior, Honors List, ...
Lori Baier spent a day preparing paper products for recycling that were left in the Community Building. A box of papers with dates back to 1915 were donated to the Tama County Historical Society. The goal of the Wieting Guild is to recycle or re-purpose 70% of the building. Baier took the ...
A new teacher hiring and the resignation of a second were approved by the South Tama School Board meeting in special session at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 27.Samantha Holtz will be an elementary and middle school talented and gifted teacher beginning this fall. She also will be assistant ...
The Boys of the Third Draft: Tama County and the Great War-On June 28, 1918, a group of 33 young men from Tama County posed for a photo in front of an American flag, brought together through circumstances beyond their control. The assembled men were the first call of the third draft in what ...
Our summer reading program "Libraries Rock" is underway at the Tama Library. Children who signed up to participate this summer started reading and keeping their log sheets on June 1st. Our first program was on Tuesday June 5th for kids who will be in 1st through 12th grade this coming school ...
Mike Davis 21 of Toledo has had 3 short stories published and another accepted for future publication. His stories have been in "Near To The Knuckle" and "Out Of The Gutter" both on line magazines. Also Mike has had a story in "The Dark City " Crime and mystery magazine Volume III Issue II ...