Early in the morning on Monday, June 9 the South Tama Board of Education, and noticeably more members of the community gathered to partake in the scheduled 7 a.m. meeting. Sticking with the recent trend of educators occupying public comments, longtime teacher and now substitute teacher George ...
CHELSEA — High above the heads of the viewers, they twirled and danced like gravity didn't touch them. The Circus of Tensegrity, with Iowa City-based aerialist Mimi Ke, put on a wonderful acrobatic performance at Windy Goat Acres, in Chelsea, on May 31. Mimi and fellow artist Elaine ...
TOLEDO – The saga of the former Elberon Public Library director who has been convicted on two felony charges stemming from events that unfolded at the facility on her final day of work there took another strange turn during last Thursday morning’s sentencing hearing as defense attorney ...
This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was filled with contentious discourse. The tension in the room came from a single agenda item; a resolution to remove a member from the Tama County Zoning Commission. The agenda was made public on the county website the Friday before, ...
For only the third time in his 26 years at South Tama, Mike Carnahan and the high school concert band brought home a Division One rating. Being one of the top honors a band can achieve, the last two came in 2012 and 2022, under the direction of Mike Carnahan and before that 1997. Earning the ...
This week's Toledo City Council meeting moved through the agenda items pretty quickly. First up, the council approved the acquisition of ag land for the 300th Street Bridge project. The council also approved amending the ordinance regarding peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants. The ...
Update: The Tama/Toledo Farmers Market will still be held on Friday, July 11, but there will be no live music to accommodate the Toledo Stoplight Festival. It was a pleasant day in Toledo, with milky clouds spilt over a warm blue sky, under which citizens gathered to navigate the maddening ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — The 10-year anniversary of Rita Papakee’s disappearance on Jan. 16, 2015 has come and passed, and although that date brought some attention back to the case of the Meskwaki Settlement woman who was 41 when she went missing, members of her family are still frustrated ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in June 2022 left Marty Hardon with an “I won’t let this beat me” attitude. After going through surgery and treatment for nearly a year before being cancer free in late May 2023, the well known Tama businessman’s story ...
As there was no supervisor's story in last week's paper, there is a double whammy in this week's edition. Due to Memorial Day, last week's Tama County Supervisors meeting, which is usually held on Monday, was pushed back to the morning of Thursday, May 29. All supervisors were present, ...