On Monday night, the STC school board met and worked through some business regarding the upcoming 2024-2025 school year. Many positions remain open throughout the district with the most pressing openings at the high school level. Building administrators reported their solutions for the staff ...
TOLEDO — George and Virginia Kunch left a legacy when they donated their 162-acre family farm in Tama County to the people of Iowa in 2005. Gone are the buildings, cottonwood trees and ag fields. In their place is a diverse reconstructed prairie with wild bergamot, prairie blazing star, cup ...
TOLEDO - On a drizzly rainy Monday morning, the usual suspects started their week by gathering for the supervisors meeting. After 15 minutes of absolute silence where no one had a public comment, the Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, kicked off the meeting with his report saying that Iowa ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison. Javier Santiz-Santiz, age 32, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in Tama, Iowa, received the prison ...
The Monday Toledo City Council meeting started off with approving the renewal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) agreement regarding fires. Next on the agenda was what everyone showed up for, the discussion about the safe routes to school grant application and funding. The council heard a ...
In 1857, the Meskwaki Nation purchased an eighty-acre parcel of land along the Iowa River. With that modest plot secured as a place to rest and rebuild after centuries of devastation and dispossession, the Meskwaki, or "Red Earth People," began to reclaim the homeland — an effort that Native ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT - The race for the District 53 seat in the Iowa house continues to heat up. Democratic challenger Tommy Hexter was invited to speak at the 108th Meskwaki Powwow over the weekend. Before speaking, Hexter was taught and performed a dance in front of the crowd. In a ...
Tama Soil & Water Conservation District announces Dylan Hosek, of rural Traer, has been selected to receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Hosek is a North Tama graduate majoring in Applied Agricultural & Food Studies and minoring in ...
Join Tama County Women, Land & Legacy for its 50th event, “Fox Ridge Winery Tour & Social.” The event will be held on Aug. 20 at 1465 L Avenue in rural Traer and will begin promptly at 6 p.m. Since this is an outdoor event, a raindate is scheduled for Aug. 22 at the same time and ...
TAMA - As she reiterated near the end of her Women in Ag roundtable at the Tama Civic Center on Tuesday morning, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), who grew up in the Des Moines area and now calls Marion home, isn’t a farmer and won’t ever pretend to be one. But the congresswoman, who ...