TOLEDO – Last Monday at 9 a.m. at the Tama County Administration Building in the supervisors’ chambers, the week started for many like it always did – sitting in a room waiting for the weekly board meeting to start. A few more than usual showed up this time, for when the clock hit 9:45 ...
TOLEDO - This Monday morning, as birds chirped and squirrels dug up their hidden winter nuts, the regulars grouped inside the Supervisor's meeting room. Before the regular meeting, County Engineer Ben Daleske stopped in to talk to the supervisors and ended up giving his report then. So when the ...
TOLEDO Ñ A Categorical Exclusion has been issued for public comment for the City of Toledo wastewater disinfection upgrade project. The supporting materials will be uploaded to this website within 48 hours: www.iowasrf.com/environmental-review/. Public comments regarding the project may be ...
TOLEDO - This week's Toledo council meeting started out by talking about liquor. After much discussion, it was decided that the dual event farmer's market and Stop Light festival would have a fenced-in area, and after that, the liquor license was approved. Next up was a public hearing for ...
TOLEDO – Last Wednesday, Tama County’s American Legion posts and Auxiliary units hosted the 67th Tama County Government Day, welcoming high school juniors and seniors from area school districts to Toledo as part of an annual effort to teach students the importance of local, county ...
TAMA - Flanked by Rep. Derek Wulf (R-Hudson), Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, a fellow Republican, took a tour of the Iowa Premium Beef plant in Tama with General Manager Jon Surman last Friday morning and learned more about successes and challenges at the facility, which currently ...
Public hearings at this week's Tama City Council meeting outnumbered the members of the public that were actually in attendance at the meeting. Three public hearings regarding the sale of different City of Tama properties kicked off the meeting. All three public hearings received no comment and ...
TOLEDO – Tama County needs a new zoning and planning administrator. On Monday during the regular weekly meeting, the Tama County Board of Supervisors accepted Marshall County’s termination of the two counties’ shared zoning contract. Last fall the counties entered into a 28E ...
It was a dreary gray Monday morning with a sky filled with clouds dripping with rain, and a crowd had gathered for this week's supervisors meeting. Rows and rows of citizens sat eagerly awaiting the 15 minutes of public comment time to express their opinions on the agenda, one even ...
The rain the past couple days was welcome, albeit cold, in Marshall and Tama counties. However, the moisture did not stop Gov. Kim Reynolds from declaring disaster declarations for 43 counties on Monday, in response to the ongoing drought. Of those, 24 are “primary” and 19 are ...