TOLEDO – As the Democrats claimed extraordinary victories nationwide Tuesday night in the midterm general election — including capturing both chambers of Congress by healthy margins and flipping several governor’s seats, including Iowa and Texas — a group of Tama County residents was ...
Despite his closest election since 2012, Republican State Rep. Dean Fisher of Montour has won another term representing House District 53, defeating Democratic challenger Berleen Wobeter of rural Toledo in Tuesday's general election. According to preliminary results from the Iowa Secretary ...
Four years after an unsuccessful bid for Tama County Treasurer, Kathy Holtz of Toledo has won the office, unseating incumbent Amanda Kriegel of Tama in Tuesday's general election. According to unofficial results from the Tama County Auditor's Office, Holtz, the Republican nominee, received ...
It’s a pivotal moment in the history of Tama County Public Health and Home Care as the agency celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2026 and welcomes new director Kelly Purk as questions linger over whether the Home Care half of the organization will continue to receive public funding in the ...
At Monday’s South Tama County school board meeting, Business Manager Katie Mathern provided the board with five-year financial projections. Main concerns centered around declining enrollment which in turn lowers the amount of state funding the district receives. Around $8,000 per student is ...
This week’s Tama City Council meeting was 90% EMS as they discussed the ins and outs of many of the issues. However, before they could get to EMS the subject of a nuisance property came up, which has seen some improvement, but not enough. The council approved going back to the lawyer to ...
It was a dark and rainy morning, one in which you would expect to see Gene Kelly dancing off a lamppost or singing in a puddle, but mostly you just saw the usual group making their way to this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting. Several subjects were touched upon during the meeting, but ...
Pausing their pumpkin carving, candy buying, and general merriment of the spooky season, the regulars made their way to this week's Tama County Supervisors meeting. The meeting kicked off with the roads report saying that a lot of blading has been done and the 300 Street bridge rail will be ...
This week’s Toledo City Council meeting saw another step forward into the future for the now merged police department. No longer the Tama Police Department or the Toledo Police Department, but now the Tama-Toledo Police Department, they’ve officially sworn in a new era. The last officer ...
A 100-page memo hit the Tama County Supervisors' meeting like a brick. It is an explanation of the recent problems the board has had with the union representing the county’s secondary roads employees. A tale of two contracts, the county states that only one is official, as the other has ...