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Government

Annual Tama County Government Day event held

Last Wednesday was the annual government day for Tama County. Local high schoolers came and learned about the inner workings of the local regime. Supervisors Heather Knebel and Curt Hilmer represented the county board and fielded questions. At Tama County Public Health and Home Care, ...

Koeppen Out

The ongoing saga that is the future of Tama County Public Health and Home Care has taken another turn as the CEO and Executive Director, Stacy Koeppen, resigned late last week. At the April 9 Public Health Board Meeting, Koeppen informed those in attendance. “After a long discussion with ...

School board continues working towards property sales

The South Tama County school board reviewed multiple offers on district-owned properties Monday night, including the old football field in Toledo, tennis courts and greenspace east of the old middle school, and a vacant lot in Tama. The district received three bids from H&H Housing LLC, ...

Kendall’s meeting

This week’s Toledo City Council meeting started with a public hearing that yielded no public comments. The public hearing was on the proposed FY27 City Budget. After the public hearing, the council majority approved the budget, with council member Vesely being the one nay. Kendall Jordan, ...

Supervisor from Sicily

Supervisor David Turner telecommunicated from Sicily to attend this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting. You couldn’t see him, but you could hear him on a few-second delay behind the rest. The meeting started out with two Windstream utility permits being approved. A Farmers ...

A new mayor in town

There was a large crowd at this week’s Tama City Council, and for good reason: there was a new mayor in town. Only two letters were received from those who wanted to be mayor, one from local John Anderson and one from current Tama Council member Danny Robinson. It was motioned, seconded, ...

Tama County Home Health lives another year

“With the case load we had,” Stacy Koeppen,CEO and executive director of the Tama County Public Health and Home Care department, said, “We were just at the verge of breaking even, when all this started. So, and we had referrals flooding in, so we would’ve been coming in above by next ...

Tama County SWCD hosts event highlighting benefits of cover crops

Words of warning from a concerned observer predicted financial ruin for Dysart farmer, Al Schafbuch, as he began to introduce cover crop practices on his farm. He was ahead of his time and experimented with the practice long before the idea was fully understood. Two decades later, Schafbuch ...

Tama County audit report released

Eide Bailly LLP recently released an audit report on Tama County, Iowa. Financial Highlights: The County’s revenues totaled $27,134,250 for the year ended June 30, 2025, a 5.2 percent increase from 2024. Expenses for the year ended June 30, 2025, totaled $24,718,374, a 7.3 percent increase ...