BELLE PLAINE – For those who drive on Highway 21 south of Dysart, some welcome changes to the route took place last week with the opening of the new interchange at U.S. 30. The interchange was built as a part of ongoing construction projects to widen U.S. 30 to four lanes between ...
TAMA - The biggest announcement at this week's Tama City Council meeting was on the subject of Cherry Lake. Due to water issues and the DNR's plan to get it nice and clean, the lake will dry up. This will only be temporary. The city of Tama has absolutely no plans to abandon Cherry Lake. ...
TOLEDO — A high-profile lawsuit filed by a woman accusing two former University of Iowa FIJI fraternity members of rape will be heard and decided in Tama County due to excessive pretrial publicity in Johnson County, a judge has ruled. The plaintiff, Makena Solberg, alleges that the ...
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 ...