This week's Tama City Council meeting started with the approval of a special assessment waiver for a local property. From there the council moved on to talk about EMS. Currently, funds coming in via the EMS transfer contract are split with 80% going into the general fund and 20% going into ...
After waking up to a bright sunny morning this Monday, multiple local citizens gathered to attend the week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Starting off with the County Engineer like usual, it was reported that Iowa Bridge and Culvert have finished up on F Avenue and only have ...
TOLEDO – It seems turbulence has yet again hit the highly controversial Salt Creek Wind project. For at least 15 years, a commercial wind energy project going by the name of Salt Creek Wind has been in some stage of development in central Tama County by either Wind Capital Group (prior to ...
TOLEDO - At last week's Tama County Supervisors meeting, held on Sept. 3, there was only one agenda item, a request to use the Tama County Courthouse lawn for a “Bible reading on September 16-17 Paradise Lost — Reading Marathon.” Assistant County Auditor Karen Rorhrs stated that she did ...
TOLEDO - This week's Toledo City Council meeting started with a powerpoint presentation by Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and School Resource Officer Vern Jefferson. The annual report given to the council was the same report given a few months ago by the officers to the South Tama School ...
TOLEDO - As the dew was thick and wet on the morning grass, the usual bunch of partygoers spent their Tuesday morning viewing the county supervisors' meeting. After fifteen minutes of silence, as no one in attendance had anything controversial to say about the single agenda item, County ...
TOLEDO – Since 2022, wind energy has been one of the main topics of concern among citizens in attendance at the weekly meetings of the Tama County Board of Supervisors. And now, according to information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, it appears that the same ...
TAMA - Usually, when one retires, they lay back, put their feet up, and watch way too much daytime television, but Kris Collins took a different path. In fact, Collins wasn't even fully retired before she had her new career all lined up. After several years of being STC Elementary's Assistant ...
TOLEDO - Braving the humid morning air on Monday, the usual gang of local government conscious citizens made their way to the Supervisor's meeting. Chairman Curt Hilmer was absent, so Supervisor Dan Anderson was at the helm. The meeting started like usual with Tama County Engineer Ben ...
TOLEDO - This week's Toledo City Council meeting started out with the annual insurance renewal review for property and work comp. After Matt Zmolek gave his presentation and answered a few questions from the council, the renewal was approved. The committee heading up the Safe Routes to ...