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The 2025 AAUW Awards Ceremony

On the first Sunday in May, as flowers bloomed and the sun smiled high in the sky, families flocked to the Toledo Reinig Center for the annual AAUW Young Women of the Year event. The local Tama-Toledo branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) held a nice ceremony ...

3D-elightful Art

With paint, tape, graphite, sweat, and spirit, thirteen young, gifted artists from South Tama High School brought their wondrous works of art to the 2025 WaMaC competition. The art, as diverse in subject matter as it was in its mediums, displayed a wide range of pieces. Of the thirteen ...

Mental Health Awareness May in Tama County

Two Tama County Supervisor meetings have been held since last week's paper — double the meetings, double the fun. The first was held on the morning of Friday, May 2. This meeting had a few different agenda items, the most interesting being the acceptance of the resignation of Chris Behrens ...

Safe Routes to School surpasses 30% of goal

The Safe Routes to School infrastructure project has made significant strides forward. With key grants secured, community fundraising well underway, and widespread support growing, this nearly $1 million initiative is moving steadily from vision to reality. The Iowa Department of ...

The Poppy proclamation, and the lengthy firetruck

The Tama City Council this week was like a well-caffeinated frog; they jumped around a little bit. The meeting began by skipping down to number four on the agenda, the Poppy Proclamation. Read out first by Mayor Brian Hanus, the proclamation states that May 2025 is the American Legion ...

Sunny Hill’s Lisa Campbell recognized as Ms. Wheelchair Iowa

Class of 2006 South Tama County High School graduate Lisa Campbell, who currently lives across the street at Sunny Hill Care Center, has been in a wheelchair since she was five years old after being born with spina bifida, and while it has come with challenges, she’s never let it hold her ...

Federal jury rules in favor of Howe, City of Toledo in Shyla Wolf lawsuit

CEDAR RAPIDS — Early last week, on April 21 and 22, the trial in the lawsuit against former Toledo Police Officer Kyle Howe and the City of Toledo by resident Shyla Wolf took place at the Northern District Federal Court of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. The suit stems from an incident in March of 2023 ...

Flickering lights

Monday's Tama County Supervisors meeting went on like usual under the cloud of the day's possible storms; at one point, the lights in the room flickered on and off, but this was just Sheriff's Office Investigator Trevor Killian leaning against the light switch. The meeting started like usual ...

Officer Igor, the graduate

This week's Toledo City Council meeting only had two agenda items; the meeting was so short that the mayor played hooky as Mayor Pro-tem Boll ran the show. Up first was the authorization of a $1 an-hour pay increase for newly certified Toledo Police Officer Igor Dias. The council approved the ...