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 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 ...
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, ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TOLEDO — A long-planned housing development on the campus of the former juvenile home property is moving forward as the City of Toledo looks to expand housing options and support community growth. Toledo Economic Development Director Katherine Ollendieck said the Woodlawn Addition ...
Over the last few years — and thanks to a pair of contracts signed with the boards of supervisors in each county — the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce has expanded its economic development reach well beyond the Marshalltown city limits and across all of the communities in Marshall and ...
The Iowa DOT’s construction for the future Toledo roundabout will start on Monday, April 6. Highway 63 will be closed from 2nd Avenue — also known as the Dollar Fresh turnoff — all the way past Kwik Star. According to the Iowa DOT’s map, they are planning a detour that has drivers ...
The birds were chirping in the trees, greeting another delightful, sunshine-filled morning, which held the last Tama County Supervisors meeting of the month. With Supervisor Curt Kupka absent, the roads report was briefly entertained with a supervisor mentioning that they believed roads were ...