A recently formed committee called the My Hometown Tama committee has been meeting and organizing small community betterment efforts for the downtown area in Tama over the past year. The group’s mission is to help make downtown Tama more attractive, welcoming and to encourage visitors and ...
One of Tama-Toledo’s oldest social organizations recently celebrated an incoming group of new officers into their leadership ranks. On the evening of Jan. 18 lodge members and their families gathered for the officer installation ceremony for the Hiram of Tyre Lodge #118 at their facility in ...
New political boundaries for the three supervisor seats in Tama County have been drawn and approved for the next 10 years. The county-level redistricting process comes as a domino effect from the information drawn by the 2020 census and the state and federal redistricting maps approved by the ...
The Waterloo Community Schools Board of Education has named South Tama County Superintendent Jared Smith as the next superintendent to replace retiring superintendent Jane Lindaman at the end of the 2020-21 school year. His hire will become official upon board approval at the regular scheduled ...
Headed into its 14th year of operation, the Tama County Humane Society (TCHS) has persisted as a critical resource for animals and people in Tama County despite the challenges of running a 24/7 operation on a minimal budget. “I think the Humane Society has been an important asset to our ...
The children of Little Knights Learning Center (LKLC) in Dysart ended their afternoon naptime a bit early last Thursday, Jan. 20 in preparation for an important visitor to their rural child care center – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Gov. Reynolds (R-Iowa) made the trek to Tama County from Des ...
Although recent frigid temperatures have made any kind of outdoor work virtually unbearable lately, excavation work has got underway at the location of the former South Tama County Primary school. South Tama Schools finalized a sale of the property in the second half of 2021 to One Site ...
Congratulations to the STC Large Group Speech team for their outstanding performance on Jan. 22 at the Iowa High School Speech Association (IHSSA) District Large Group contest in Pella. Nine out of STC’s 12 competing events advanced to IHSSA State Large Group Contest with Division I ratings. ...
The Tama County Republican Party will hold midterm caucuses on Monday, February 7, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Caucus locations and the voting precincts that will report to those locations are as follows: Clutier JnR Community Center 505 5th St., Clutier Precincts 7, 10, 12 (Carroll, Oneida, E. 1/2 ...
The Iowa Democratic Party will hold the 2022 midterm caucus on Monday, February 7, 2022, beginning at 7:00 p.m. All caucus participants must be in line or signed in by 7:00 pm. in order to participate. In Tama County the Democratic Caucus will be held in two locations: South Tama Elementary ...