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Government

Supervisors officially hire new full-time engineer

During Monday’s Tama County Supervisors meeting, a new county engineer was hired. Benton Daleske, formerly the Fayette County assistant engineer, will start work on May 1. The Assistant Engineer reported that contract rock should be finishing up this week. The X Avenue project in Dysart has ...

Big man on campus

On the brisk, breezy morning of April 5, Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator, Republican Chuck Grassley of New Hartford, made a stop at South Tama County High School during his annual 99 county tour for a question and answer event with local students. During his 45 minutes of prelect, students were ...

Who can read what?

The first recorded suppression of literature was in China in 213 B.C. It has been a pattern throughout history, and now, over 2,200 years later, it's still happening, even in Iowa. Legislation was proposed this year that would lead to the banning of a laundry list of books in every single ...

Individual cited for felling trees at Chelsea boat launch

An individual was recently cited by the Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources for illegally cutting trees at Duffus Landing – also known as the Chelsea boat launch – following an investigation by Tama County Conservation staff. During the April 5 conservation board meeting, Director Stephen ...

The world’s shortest public hearing

At the April 10 Toledo Council meeting, Tom Kemper's mowing bid was approved. A public hearing was held on the proposed amended and restated plan for the Toledo urban revitalization area, and since public attendance was at the stagnant number of zero, the hearing concluded in under a minute. ...

‘It’s just not gonna happen’

"It's just not gonna happen," Curt Hilmer announced at Monday’s Tama County Supervisors meeting when asked for an update on livestreaming the weekly sessions. Hilmer went on to say that there are too many people opposing the prospect — namely, the other two supervisors: Dan Anderson and ...

Tama council talks sewer generators, insurance

At the Tama City Council meeting on Monday, Matt from Assured Partners Insurance gave an update on the property, cyber, and other policies for discussion of possible changes. A resolution was approved for the city of Tama to apply for a $100,000 Iowa Economic Development Authority grant ...

Downtown funk

The March 27 Toledo City Council meeting and public hearing saw much talk over making the first floors of downtown properties residential. Turning the ground floors from storefronts into apartments is not a new idea. Last discussed in 2016, the thought of putting apartments in downtown ...

From Ragbrai to wastewater programs

The March 20 Tama City Council meeting started with hearing updates from the Tama Economic Development Commission Executive Director Katherine Ollendieck. Arrangements for RAGBRAI’s arrival are slowly but surely coming together, with the estimated number of visitors to the county climbing. ...

Supervisors to hold solar session

At the Tama County Supervisors meeting on March 20, the decision was made to set a public hearing to discuss a possible Solar Energy Ordinance on April 4 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Toledo Reinig Center. The supervisors have been asking for and receiving opinions on the ordinance in the past ...