This week’s Toledo City Council meeting started with a pitch by Enos Miller. Enos was granted a goodwill motion by the council for his idea to build a mobile home park on 1st Avenue. Enos’ has not yet purchased the property, but came to the council to see if the city would be willing to ...

TOLEDO — Dedication ceremonies for the newly refurbished and updated Toledo Bandstand at the Tama County Courthouse square are set for 10 a.m. on Nov. 1. Jim Roan, project manager, said the majority of the planned work on the $135,000 in improvements are complete. Following the dedication a ...

TOLEDO — In 1938, H.H. (Hollie Howard) Turbett was the contractor, heading up the crew which built the original Toledo Bandstand on the east lawn of the Tama County Courthouse. The bandstand was built by City of Toledo. Today, Hollie’s granddaughter, Cindy Turbett Backoff, and her husband ...

This week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting started, as it often does, with Tama County Engineer Ben Daleske giving his weekly report. They are doing some ditch digging near 260th Street and C Avenue, while the cutting of berms and re-graveling on H Avenue south of 370th Street has finished. ...

This week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting started with some contentious discord. The subject of debate was one that has long been bubbling under the surface: the minutes. Auditor Karen Rohrs has been doing her job of taking and drafting minutes for each Board of Supervisors meeting since ...

As Tama EMS Administrator Jimmy Hicklin sat back, munching from a bag of white cheddar cheese puffs and playing a game on his phone, the Tama City Council held its meeting. Ryan Goodenbour, the coordinator for Tama County Emergency Management, started off the meeting. Ryan spoke to the council ...

Nearly 30 community members filled the board room this week to share their views on the proposed sale of the former South Tama County Middle School, voicing both optimism and caution about what could become of the century-old building on South Green Street. The public hearing, held Monday ...

For several weeks, over four different meetings, the proposition of a stop sign has divided the county like little else. After the city of Toledo received a slew of complaints about speeding on Ross Street, they went to the county, asking them to place a stop sign just outside the city ...

TOLEDO — “Completion is moving along,” Jim Roan, project manager for the renovation of Toledo’s downtown Bandstand reported on Oct. 13. As is evident to passersby. The bandstand, on the Tama County Courthouse lawn, now has a roof with Todd Long’s crew wrapping their portion of the ...

This week’s Toledo City Council meeting started with two closed sessions. Between closed session one and two, the council came back into open session to approve the tentative settlement agreement negotiated by EMC in the case of Romero v. City of Toledo, et al. No other action was taken after ...