This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting saw a pivotal turn in the epic wind turbine saga. After years of fighting, litigation, and back-and-forth, the supervisors agreed to enter into a settlement agreement with Salt Creek Wind LLC that will allow their project to move forward ...

Economic Development has been a touchy subject in Tama County in 2025. Earlier this year, the Tama County Board of Supervisors approved a drastic cut to the department's budget. Another change came when longtime director Katherine Ollendieck resigned from her position. With little funding, ...

With a full board room and an empty section of the board table, this week's STC school board meeting was different. Both Joe Hanus and Megan Thiessen were absent from the meeting, and Beth Wiese entered late to the meeting, raising the question of having a quorum present. Amber Robson, who ...

Although she was never a practicing lawyer before taking on her role as Tama County’s magistrate in 1997, a passion for the justice system ran deep in Ann Kuhter’s blood as her father, the late Richard “Dick” Paxson, was a longtime magistrate in Black Hawk County, where Ann was born and ...

The first two agenda items on this week's Toledo City Council meeting were tabled for another week, as the people connected to the items weren't present. Moving swiftly along like a duck through soup, the council moved on to agenda item number three, which was the purchase of a new ambulance. ...

In a statement released on the City of Toledo IA Facebook page on Wednesday, July 30, the city of Toledo announced the park will be closed until further notice. “The City of Toledo will be closing Toledo Heights Park until further notice due to flooding. Please do NOT drive through past ...

In the last week, there were at least two incidents where Tama Emergency Services were called into action. The first incident was a fire at a house on the corner of Oswego and 6th Street in Tama on Wednesday, July 23. Tama Fire and Rescue, Toledo Fire and Rescue, Tama EMS, and Tama Police ...

Monday's usual showing of the county supervisors went on like usual, with this week's production adding a nice little hour and some long intermission for a closed session. The viewers mulled about in the hallway discussing what had happened so far in the show and proposing theories as to what ...

Anyone who attended this week's Tama City council meeting was witness to a show. In the beginning, the first four items on this week's agenda were tabled for another time as no one pertaining to the proposed lien waivers was present. However, once the involved parties showed, the agenda items ...

This week's Tama County Supervisors meeting was like a family dinner, several hours long, filled with conflict, and everyone and their uncle got to give their two cents on the issues. The meeting was expected to be a long one, as Supervisor David Turner made a new house rule that there be a ...