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The March Sisters in April

Places, lights, curtains, and away we go. Next week, the STC high school cast of this year's play will whisk you away back to the 1800s to tell you the story of the March sisters. 'Little Women' is the production in question; the story, originally written by Louisa May Alcott in 1868, has since ...

County candidates file for June 4 primary election

TOLEDO – Last week Friday at 5 p.m. the county filing deadline passed for the June 4 primary election. The offices of county auditor and county sheriff, as well as five seats on the county board of supervisors, will all be on the Tama County primary ballot this June. Tama County ...

‘A hiring crisis’

TOLEDO - Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and Lieutenant Nathan Wunn made a presentation to the city council at Monday night's meeting to address some serious concerns — a hiring crisis, in the chief’s words. Currently, there are two open positions at the Toledo Police Department, ...

The new rules

TOLEDO - This week's Supervisors meeting was all about rules and handbooks. But before they got into all that, the supervisors had this week's report from the engineer. Contract rock has finished being delivered, and trucks were out clearing roads after last week's bout of snow. The K Avenue ...

Tommy Hexter of Grinnell is running for Iowa House District 53

GRINNELL – Tommy is the director of Grinnell Farm To Table, a local food business that connects over 35 local farmers with consumers in Poweshiek and Tama County and provides food access to 8 community food pantries in the area. He also works for Iowa Farmers Union as a rural organizer ...

Elberon Women’s Club hosts March meeting

ELBERON — The Elberon Area Women's Club held its March 18 meeting at the Elberon Community Center at 1:30 pm. with four members present. Secretary Amanda Nettesheim reported on the December meeting and treasurer Doris Parizek gave the financial report. A memorial was sent to the family of ...

Elberon Auxiliary holds March meeting

ELBERON — The Elberon American Legion Auxiliary met March 12 with the meeting opening in usual form. Vice President Marce Nekola presented the colors and offered an opening prayer. “The Vacant Chair” was read by President Lorraine Vileta and the group joined in reciting the Pledge of ...

Tama County Community Foundation donates $4,000 for Early Childhood Services

DES MOINES — LSI received $4,000 from Tama Community Foundation to support Early Childhood Home Visitation Services. LSI utilizes Healthy Families America an evidence-based home-visiting model, in counties across the state, including Tama. LSI’s HFA provides free prevention services to ...

Shamrock ‘n Rollin’ in the Stampede

TAMA - It was early Saturday morning, the sun was bright, the wind was snapping, and a torrent of green festooned citizens hit downtown Tama. This was the Irish Stampede. A large group of people congregated in and out of the Eagles before lining up for the annual 5k. At the word go, some ...