There's no sign, no painted line, no fence, but if you’ve lived here long enough, you know where it is, the point where Tama starts and Toledo ends, the invisible border. For the Tama and Toledo Police Departments, that little line has been a very important detail for decades, but soon, ...
At the Aug. 10, Tama County Supervisors meeting, citizen Bob Vokoun stood before the board and presented a petition to put the possibility of going back to three supervisors on the November ballot just two years after the board expanded to five members divided by districts as the result of a ...
After the sun was poured out above the clouds and left to burn on the griddle, the usual group woke and made their way to this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting. This week's meeting started with the roads report, which stated they replaced a culvert and continued ditching, hauling rock, ...
This week’s Toledo City Council meeting started with some discussion with local citizen Rick Hopper on the zoning of housing lots. After some talk, the council referred the issue to the Board of Adjustment. The council approved setting a public hearing to vacate the alley at 104 W. Ohio on ...
There's no sign, no painted line, no fence, but if you’ve lived here long enough, you know where it is, the point where Tama starts and Toledo ends, the invisible border. For the Tama and Toledo Police Departments, that little line has been a very important detail for decades, but soon, ...
It could be history in the making: the joining of the Tama and Toledo Police Departments into one. Join all relevant parties on Thursday, Aug. 27, at 5 p.m. at the Toledo Reinig Center to ask questions, give opinions, and see what it’s all about. The proposed merger will have the cities of ...
After the sun woke up and slipped out of bed high into the sky, the warm morning started with a battalion of citizens heading to this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting on Monday. Confusion seems to have been the predominant feeling in the meeting, as no one seemed to have a firm grasp ...
South Tama County school board members spent a lengthy portion of their Aug. 17 meeting discussing chronic absenteeism, including whether the district should seek greater involvement from the Tama County Attorney’s Office when students repeatedly fail to attend school. The conversation came ...
It’s not just a simple management shift for the local board of supervisors; no, this is one of those historic moments that needs to be recorded and remembered for the posterity of Tama County. The first elected woman to the Tama County Board of Supervisors is now the first female chair of the ...
The sun was high in the sky, beating down on the morning like Cassius Clay in the third round. The Tama County Supervisors meeting started with the board being served a petition during the public comments time. The petition was to place a public measure on the November ballot to decrease the ...