TOLEDO — After years of planning, failed bond attempts, leadership transitions, and years of construction, leaders of the South Tama County Community School District officially cut the ribbon on the new middle school in Toledo — the former Iowa Juvenile Home — on Thursday ...
A new era in local education began on Monday as the South Tama County Middle School officially opened to students and staff on the former Iowa Juvenile Home campus, and the newly established, nondenominational Tama-Toledo Christian School (TTCS) welcomed 33 students in grades K-8 for the first ...
Monday night's school board meeting was short and sweet with little on the agenda. Both Joe Hanus and Megan Thiessen were once again absent leaving the decisions to be made by only three of five board members. With no presentations or public comments, the board moved right through the agenda. ...
TOLEDO – The site of today’s South Tama County Middle School has been home to Toledo’s schools for nearly 170 years. Since the mid-19th century, each generation of students has attended classes on the same block at Green and Carleton Streets, even as the buildings themselves have ...
A lemonade stand might sound simple, but at Miss Lacy’s Preschool it’s part of something much bigger: a community effort to build a brand-new playground for local preschoolers. The private program, run by teacher Lacy Starits, has been operating in Toledo for four years and serves ...
In a return to 5 p.m. meetings, the STC School board operated as a body of three for the second meeting in a row. Both Joe Hanus and Megan Thiessen were absent from the meeting. Occupying the first public comment was building administration. Elementary principal Brad Schweppe, middle school ...
The Tama-Toledo Chamber of Commerce is in the midst of its annual Stuff the Bus school supply drive, giving local students a head start on the upcoming school year. Chamber business partners are serving as drop-off locations for community members who wish to donate new school supplies. The ...
WEST DES MOINES — This summer, the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation and Iowa Select Farms will distribute more than 39,000 pounds of ground pork as a part of the Haul Out Hunger program. A record 130 food pantries in 97 communities throughout Iowa will receive the pork to fight food insecurity ...
Members of the Hometown Action Team (HAT), local leaders, and community supporters gathered in Tama Park last week to celebrate a milestone five years in the making: the successful completion of the fundraising campaign for the Safe Routes to School project. In just over 100 days, the ...
AMES – Lauren Keller of rural Gladbrook was awarded the 4-H Art & Design 4-H Scholarship through the Iowa 4-H Foundation at the recognition ceremony held Sunday, June 29 in Ames. As a part of the ceremony, 115 Iowa 4-H scholarships valued at over $121,850 were awarded. Over 450 ...