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PHOTOS: Reynolds tours IJH property ahead of school bond vote

Gov. Kim Reynolds paid a visit to Toledo on Feb. 18 to tour the vacant Iowa Juvenile Home facility that is at the center of a school bond referendum up for vote at a special school election on March 1. Reynolds heard details of the coordinated efforts between the state, the South Tama County ...

Tama Council talks bridge project, EMS and retirements

A crowd of close to two dozen community members again filled Tama City Hall in hopes of hearing discussion or voice opinions on the future of the Lincoln Highway Bridge in Tama. Two weeks prior, the council learned there had been no bids received for the project when the city’s engineering ...

Hinson talks small business in Tama County

With the condition of the U.S. economy at the forefront of conversations from Wall Street down to the kitchen table this year, it came as no surprise that U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) would be focusing on business-related issues during a central Iowa swing through tour last week. On ...

Bridge Watch: City receives no bids in second attempt

Well over a dozen residents gathered at Tama City Hall Monday to hear what they thought might be the fate of the historic Lincoln Highway Bridge on 5th Street in Tama. What transpired however was more of a pitstop than a final destination along the bridge’s recent journey. For the past ...

Tama County conducts midterm caucus

Iowa’s biennial caucus took place in school lunchrooms, community centers, libraries, and the like across Iowa this past Monday night including in several locations throughout Tama County. The longstanding tradition of ‘neighbors talking to neighbors’ began at 7:00 p.m. for both Tama ...

New supervisor districts approved

New political boundaries for the three supervisor seats in Tama County have been drawn and approved for the next 10 years. The county-level redistricting process comes as a domino effect from the information drawn by the 2020 census and the state and federal redistricting maps approved by the ...

Gov. Reynolds visits Tama County child care center

The children of Little Knights Learning Center (LKLC) in Dysart ended their afternoon naptime a bit early last Thursday, Jan. 20 in preparation for an important visitor to their rural child care center – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Gov. Reynolds (R-Iowa) made the trek to Tama County from Des ...

Tama County Republicans set to hold midterm caucus

The Tama County Republican Party will hold midterm caucuses on Monday, February 7, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Caucus locations and the voting precincts that will report to those locations are as follows: Clutier JnR Community Center 505 5th St., Clutier Precincts 7, 10, 12 (Carroll, Oneida, E. 1/2 ...

Iowa Democrats to hold midterm caucus

The Iowa Democratic Party will hold the 2022 midterm caucus on Monday, February 7, 2022, beginning at 7:00 p.m. All caucus participants must be in line or signed in by 7:00 pm. in order to participate. In Tama County the Democratic Caucus will be held in two locations: South Tama Elementary ...

Three things to know from Tama City Council

1. The Tama City Council has begun the process to investigate the possibility of hiring a city administrator. During the council’s Jan. 17 regular meeting the group approved a proposal from Callahan Municipal Consultants LLC for up to $4,750 to conduct a study that would review the various ...