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 ...
The South Tama County Community School District is exploring a potential partnership with Marshalltown Community College (MCC) that could bring new career and technical education opportunities to students at South Tama County High School. During the Monday school board meeting, Superintendent ...
They all wandered alone, traveling separately, over dead leaves and under balding trees to come and congregate so as to meditate on the issues of the day at this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting. The meeting started like most, with the roads report. The new Engineer, who is ...
The Tama City Council meeting started by snapping through agenda items left and right. They started by hiring a new deputy city clerk, Abbigail Patrick, setting her wage at $20 an hour, and making her a signer on all city accounts, replacing former deputy clerk Sierra Berger. EMS talked about ...
They met first thing in the morning on Oct. 1, loaded into a bus, and took off on a classic ol’ road trip. There were county supervisors, mayors, regular citizens, and political candidates filling the seats. So, where were they all going? Stanton, a local economic marvel in southwest Iowa. ...
A new initiative known as Thrive Iowa is taking root in Marshall and Tama counties, and on Wednesday, the professionals behind the program met with civic leaders, social workers and law enforcement to map out how it will look locally and plan the next steps. In Tama County, that collective ...
This week’s Toledo City Council meeting was chock-full of public hearings. It started with a hearing on the sale of vacated public right of way a.k.a. Parcel M, which is located at the intersection of South Broadway and Business Highway 30 East. There were no comments, and the council ...
Once the switch for the sun was flipped on and Monday began, those usual meeting goers made their way to the Tama County Supervisors meeting. The meeting started with a lengthy exempt session that had a group loitering in the hall, waiting for the regular meeting to start. The roads ...