CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced to two years in federal prison on Monday. Miguel Araujo-Rocha, age 38, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in Tama, received the prison term after a Nov. ...
TOLEDO – Tama County needs a new zoning and planning administrator. On Monday during the regular weekly meeting, the Tama County Board of Supervisors accepted Marshall County’s termination of the two counties’ shared zoning contract. Last fall the counties entered into a 28E ...
TAMA-TOLEDO — “The School for Spies” is coming to The Wieting Theatre. This musical is designed for students of all levels of theatre experience. Campers will audition, rehearse and perform a musical alongside three professional teaching artists… in one week. The “School for Spies” ...
TAMA Ñ Kaylynn Murty, of rural Tama, is this year's recipient of Tama Soil & Water Conservation District's $1,000 High School Scholarship and is the daughter of Tim and Ashley Murty. She is finishing her senior year at South Tama County High School before heading to Iowa State University ...
REINBECK – Record collectors, vinyl lovers, music enthusiasts and beer drinkers are invited to come out to The Dig Inn in downtown Reinbeck on Saturday, April 20, starting around 11 a.m. for the annual Record Store Day. Record Store Day – which first took hold in 2008 — is an annual ...
The sun sat high in the sky like an egg yolk among the clouds, shining down on the polka-dotted yards of the Sunny Hill Care Center last Friday. Plastic eggs holding wondrous treats lay among the grass, just waiting to be plucked from the ground. Children, parents, and residents alike were ...
It was a dreary gray Monday morning with a sky filled with clouds dripping with rain, and a crowd had gathered for this week's supervisors meeting. Rows and rows of citizens sat eagerly awaiting the 15 minutes of public comment time to express their opinions on the agenda, one even ...
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the much discussed Area Education Agencies (AEA) reform bill into law last Wednesday, just a day after the Iowa Senate approved the legislation. House File 2612 (HF2612) passed the Senate last Tuesday on a 30-18 vote, with Sen. Annette Sweeney (R-Iowa ...
The rain the past couple days was welcome, albeit cold, in Marshall and Tama counties. However, the moisture did not stop Gov. Kim Reynolds from declaring disaster declarations for 43 counties on Monday, in response to the ongoing drought. Of those, 24 are “primary” and 19 are ...
The 2024 Meskwaki Settlement School Prom Court has been announced. Front Row left to right: Sophie Balderas, Sia Bear and Nigel Lasley. Back row left to right: Kimaura Lasley, Devon Roberts, Sophie Kucera, Deyson Poweshiek and Christopher Blackcloud.