A new era in local education began on Monday as the South Tama County Middle School officially opened to students and staff on the former Iowa Juvenile Home campus, and the newly established, nondenominational Tama-Toledo Christian School (TTCS) welcomed 33 students in grades K-8 for the first ...
In a report released last Friday, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office concluded that the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Tama man Logan Kurth by Lt. Nathan Wunn of the Toledo Police Department on July 5 was legally justified. The report also provides further details about the circumstances ...
This week’s Toledo City Council meeting saw the possible end to an ongoing local situation. Angie Blocker, fresh off her Toledo Board of Adjustment meeting from the week prior, went before the council to again talk about the basement apartment in her newly purchased uptown Toledo building on ...
Toledo Bandstand to receive a facelift TOLEDO — Toledo Bandstand renovations are set to begin in full swing beginning on Sept. 8, with an 8 a.m. groundbreaking ceremony. Located on the east side of the Tama County Courthouse lawn in downtown Toledo, it has served as the site for countless ...
This week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting started with a lively back-and-forth during the public comment time. Afterwards, the official meeting kicked off with Ben Daleske, the Tama County Engineer, giving his weekly report, saying that H Avenue has been finished up and that they are ...
Monday night's school board meeting was short and sweet with little on the agenda. Both Joe Hanus and Megan Thiessen were once again absent leaving the decisions to be made by only three of five board members. With no presentations or public comments, the board moved right through the agenda. ...
AMES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced a new state-funded conservation cost-share pilot project supporting farmers and landowners in the watersheds upstream from the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids metropolitan areas. The Streamside Buffer Initiative encourages farmers and ...
GARWIN – A Garwin man has been arrested and charged with animal neglect following the discovery of a deceased dog at his residence. According to court documents, on Wednesday, Aug. 20 just after 9 p.m., Daltin Allen Dillingham, 26, of Garwin was arrested and charged with driving under ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — As event moderator Tommy Hexter asked the 20 or so people in attendance for last Wednesday night’s listening session how many of them had been affected by cancer in one way or another, every hand inside the Meskwaki Tribal Center gymnasium went up. Hexter, the ...
TOLEDO – The site of today’s South Tama County Middle School has been home to Toledo’s schools for nearly 170 years. Since the mid-19th century, each generation of students has attended classes on the same block at Green and Carleton Streets, even as the buildings themselves have ...