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Insurance and puppies

TAMA - Monday's Tama City Council meeting started off with Matt Zmolek discussing the town's insurance. The council approved adding items they maintained from the Tama Paper Mill purchase to their insurance. They also approved going with Provident Insurance Company. The council approved ...

Say cheese

TAMA - In early January, the City of Tama's decision to have traffic cameras installed in troubled areas became official after the third reading of the amended traffic ordinance received no public opposition. The cameras went up in two locations around Tama in mid-February but were not ...

County candidates file for June 4 primary election

TOLEDO – Last week Friday at 5 p.m. the county filing deadline passed for the June 4 primary election. The offices of county auditor and county sheriff, as well as five seats on the county board of supervisors, will all be on the Tama County primary ballot this June. Tama County ...

‘A hiring crisis’

TOLEDO - Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and Lieutenant Nathan Wunn made a presentation to the city council at Monday night's meeting to address some serious concerns — a hiring crisis, in the chief’s words. Currently, there are two open positions at the Toledo Police Department, ...

The new rules

TOLEDO - This week's Supervisors meeting was all about rules and handbooks. But before they got into all that, the supervisors had this week's report from the engineer. Contract rock has finished being delivered, and trucks were out clearing roads after last week's bout of snow. The K Avenue ...

Races set for June 4 primary election

Voters will choose the legislative candidates to represent their respective political parties during the June 4 primary election. The winners of the primary will face opposing party candidates during the November general election. Candidates who filed the necessary paperwork before the ...

Summer help and a mosquito sprayer

TAMA - This week's Tama City Council meeting started Monday evening with the light tap of a gavel. The first thing on the agenda was the appointment of Mark Patterson to the Planning and Zoning Board. This was approved quickly, and the council moved on to the next item. Bruce Mann was approved ...

The need to speed limit

TOLEDO - Monday's Supervisors meeting was a run-of-the-mill showing of parliamentary procedure with not too much on the agenda. The engineer kicked things off, like usual, reporting about the blading that had been done and the salt shipment that they'd received. PCI has finished doing the ...

Ethics committee unanimously dismisses complaint against Rep. Fisher

DES MOINES — A complaint filed by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) against Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) over his involvement with the newly created Tama-Toledo Christian School was unanimously dismissed by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee on Tuesday morning. "I’m glad ...

Cracking down

Toledo has seen an uptick in self checkout related thefts in the last year. Just since January, there have been over 20 reported thefts from local businesses. Most commonly, the thefts have been for items costing less than $20, but some have stolen up to $300 worth of merchandise. From stacking ...