UNION GROVE LAKE – Controversy surrounding payouts the Tama County Board of Health attempted to make this past July to two homeowners whose septics were improperly passed by the previous sanitarian continues to leach consequences, having now ensnared a former homeowner in a possible lawsuit ...

The new Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, got to meet the Toledo city council at this Monday's meeting. Ben stood tall, reading from the papers in his trapper keeper, and pitched repairing the bridge on 300th Street. A grant will be applied for, that would take the bulk of the cost, but the ...

This week's supervisors meeting went by rather quickly, without any fireworks going off. Big cheese Bill Faircloth was absent, so Supervisor Curt Hilmer once again had the reins. Hilmer still stumbled and tumbled a bit when it came to the monotonous particulars of parliamentary procedure, ...

The Tama City Council had an over two-hour session on Monday the 21st, starting off with an hour long public hearing. The public hearing was for any and all citizens that wanted their opinions on the Lincoln Highway Bridge situation known. One man came as far away as California for the ...

TAMA — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) made the rounds with a trio of stops in the southwest quadrant of her district on Tuesday, and one of them was a town hall meeting at the Tama Civic Center, where she discussed government spending, agricultural issues, immigration and a host of other ...

RURAL TOLEDO – Despite a scarcity of public information, it appears Tama County Conservation Director Stephen Mayne has resigned. This past Monday in an email exchange with Tama-Grundy Publishing, Tama County Attorney Brent Heeren told the newspaper it was his understanding that Director ...

Yet again, the biggest item on the Tama County Supervisors' agenda this Monday was the Board of Health budget. At 10 a.m., the supervisors held a public hearing on a proposed decrease in the appropriation of the Board of Health budget. This is an ongoing issue after the Board of Health ...

TOLEDO - At the Toledo City Council meeting on Monday, Vern Jefferson was sworn in as a Toledo Police Officer. with over 26 years of law enforcement experience, Jefferson was hired on to be the new South Tama School Resource Officer. After reciting the oath with Mayor Sokol, Jefferson was ...

TOLEDO - The biggest issue discussed at Monday's supervisors meeting was the Zoning board. Carol Meyer from the Toledo area and Steven Peterson from the Chelsea area were appointed to the board during the supervisor's meeting. The supervisors had several applicants of both genders for the ...

DYSART – Three members of Congress visited Dysart last week Thursday in a sort of reverse ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ for a roundtable discussion meant to further explore the theft of agricultural technology by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson of Iowa’s ...