TAMA - The June 5 Tama city council meeting started with a scramble to get council member Aaron Haughey on the phone so the meeting could begin. Council members Larry Thomas and Emily Babinat were also absent, leaving the number of those present dwindling. Once council member Haughey was ...

All five members of the STC School Board were present alongside school district employees and community members for Monday’s meeting. In a relatively brief meeting the board went over topics ranging from early graduation requests to health textbooks to vacuum cleaners. The board teabled ...

TOLEDO - The Tama County Board of Supervisors had a special meeting on Monday, June 5 at noon. The meeting was to discuss possibly merging the jobs of sanitarian, weed commissioner, and zoning commissioner into one and sharing that employee with Marshall County. In attendance were members of ...

After this reporter showed up 15 minutes late to the Tuesday, May 30 Tama County Supervisors meeting, I sat at my little table as everyone in the room talked amongst themselves. Topics of discussion varied widely but mostly centered around events that happened over the long weekend. The ...

Multiple were in attendance at the Toledo City Council meeting on May 22nd. One of the big issues discussed was the possibility of a South Tama Community School Resource Officer. Tama Police Chief Bina was in attendance as well as South Tama Community School Superintendent John Cain, both ...

At the May 22nd Tama County Supervisors meeting, a new bench for the courthouse lawn was approved. The bench will be granite and in honor of the Toledo Public School. Toledo Public School classes of 1958-1962 are paying for the new bench. The exact location on the courthouse lawn is yet ...

It was at least week’s Toledo City Council meeting that Toledo resident Mark Doland got up to speak. Doland, a community advocate for the Marshalltown Police and Community Team, or MPACT, talked about the possibility of such a program coming to Tama-Toledo. Doland has over 25 years of ...

At the Monday, May 15, Tama City Council meeting, the possibility of a School Resource Officer was discussed, and it was eventually decided to get more information before anything was done. It was also told by Chief Bina that a supervisor from the 6th Judicial Juvenile Court informed him that ...

"The last time that I had talked to Brent Heeren about the legal processes going on over here, he told me, he said it's all political, he says I want nothing to do with it," Supervisor Bill Faircloth said at Monday’s Tama County Supervisors meeting. The statement was made during the ...

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO — Tama Mayor Doug Ray recently signed the proclamation for poppy distribution to begin during the Lincoln Highway Days, coming up this weekend. Brenda Youngbear, American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Chairman, looked on and approved. The proclamation reads as follows: “I, ...