TOLEDO – Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Abe Dieleman of rural Toledo and Ryan Hosek of rural Traer have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dieleman is a Green ...
TOLEDO – The application window is open until Aug. 15 for this year’s fall Master Gardener training cohort, offered in Tama County. Iowans wishing to become a Master Gardener volunteer register with a local county extension office, complete the online Garden Academy Moodle course, and ...
This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting saw a pivotal turn in the epic wind turbine saga. After years of fighting, litigation, and back-and-forth, the supervisors agreed to enter into a settlement agreement with Salt Creek Wind LLC that will allow their project to move forward ...
Economic Development has been a touchy subject in Tama County in 2025. Earlier this year, the Tama County Board of Supervisors approved a drastic cut to the department's budget. Another change came when longtime director Katherine Ollendieck resigned from her position. With little funding, ...
With a full board room and an empty section of the board table, this week's STC school board meeting was different. Both Joe Hanus and Megan Thiessen were absent from the meeting, and Beth Wiese entered late to the meeting, raising the question of having a quorum present. Amber Robson, who ...
TOLEDO – There are very few folks involved in Tama County 4-H/FFA and agriculture in general who don’t know Frank Albertsen of rural Toledo. But now, the greater population of Iowa will have the opportunity to learn all about him, too, as the county’s 2025 Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame ...
Although she was never a practicing lawyer before taking on her role as Tama County’s magistrate in 1997, a passion for the justice system ran deep in Ann Kuhter’s blood as her father, the late Richard “Dick” Paxson, was a longtime magistrate in Black Hawk County, where Ann was born and ...
The first two agenda items on this week's Toledo City Council meeting were tabled for another week, as the people connected to the items weren't present. Moving swiftly along like a duck through soup, the council moved on to agenda item number three, which was the purchase of a new ambulance. ...
In a statement released on the City of Toledo IA Facebook page on Wednesday, July 30, the city of Toledo announced the park will be closed until further notice. “The City of Toledo will be closing Toledo Heights Park until further notice due to flooding. Please do NOT drive through past ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present “Savor Iowa’s Culinary History” with Darcy Maulsby on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 7 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. Savor Iowa’s amazing food heritage! Iowa’s delectable cuisine is quintessentially ...