TOLEDO – Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to February of 2025. On July 30, Assistant Attorney General Michael H. Ringle filed a motion for a continuance of the 10-day jury trial which had been set to begin Oct. 1 of this year. The State asked for the date ...
As the morning dew still clung to blades of grass and the car windshield, many gathered for the week's supervisors' meeting. The Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, kicked off the main part of the meeting like always with his report talking about how Iowa Bridge and Culvert is working on F ...
This week's Tama City Council meeting started with a subject discussed last week at the Toledo City Council meeting; the Visioning Committee's safe routes to school grant application and funding. The council received a brief explanation of what would happen and where the planned sidewalks and ...
GLADBROOK — Summer is in full swing, and many families are growing home gardens. Preserving your garden’s summer bounty is a great way to enjoy your home-grown produce year-round – as long as you don’t serve food borne illness, like botulism, with your home-preserved foods, say ...
AMES – It’s no secret that much of Iowa’s farmland is rented, and non-operator farmland owners are often considered to be out-of-touch if they do not live on the land they rent. But data from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach shows that most landowners live fairly close to ...
MARSHALLTOWN – Legendary Iowa high school baseball coach Kent Stock, subject of the 2007 movie “The Final Season” — a true story filmed mostly in nearby Benton County in 2006 — visited and spoke at the Iowa Veterans Home last week Thursday, Aug. 15, and autographed copies of his book ...
DES MOINES – Whether it was food, livestock, competitions, concerts or entertainment, the Iowa State Fair found a record-breaking cure for FAIR FEVER, August 8-18, 2024. The largest Fair in its 170-year-old history, Fair Fever attendance totaled a whopping 1,182,682 Fairgoers. The previous ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT - The 108th Annual Meskwaki Powwow wrapped up on Sunday at the Powwow Grounds located on the Settlement about four miles west of Tama. The four-day event celebrated various groups throughout the weekend, including a Veterans’ Day program on Saturday. Attendees came from ...
TAMA - An individual was found dead after first responders were called to a house fire in the 600 block of Hall Street in Tama last Friday morning, according to a press release from the Tama Police Department. The Tama PD, Tama Fire Department, Toledo Fire Department and Tama EMS were ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — With classes officially underway as of Thursday, the Meskwaki Settlement School is welcoming two women into important leadership roles — one a new face and the other extremely familiar to MSS families. Johanna Cooper, a native of Puerto Rico who most recently ...