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Brooklyn Opera House celebrates five years

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BROOKLYN — This week, the Brooklyn Opera House is celebrating the five-year anniversary of coming under new ownership and beginning its renovation, a milestone that has brought a wide range of entertainment to Brooklyn. This celebration also respectfully acknowledges 20 years since the ...

The Saving Lifepak

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Tama EMS has just acquired a new piece of life-saving equipment. The Lifepak 35 is an advanced piece of technology that will play a pivotal role in saving the lives of citizens. Head of Tama EMS Jimmy Hicklin explained the device. "It has more advanced features that streamline cardiac ...

Trucks Galore

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A semi, a garbage truck, a helicopter, and a firetruck park next to a library, that's not the start of a joke, but Touch A Truck Nite on June 27. With kids and adults alike, running about looking in awe at all of the equipment on display, the Tama Library hosted event was easily a success. ...

St. Patrick’s Cemetery self-guided tour is July 2-16

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TAMA — There will again NOT be a July program at the Wieting Theater due to the upcoming July play. The Tama County Historical Society is presenting a self-guided tour to St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery from July 2 – July 16 for the July 2025 program. The program includes a map with ...

‘A real community event’

Business

CHELSEA — As Windy Goat Acres just outside of Chelsea continues to gain notoriety and acclaim around the state and the country for its idyllic setting in Iowa’s Bohemian Alps and unique array of events, the facility hosted its first official concert featuring indie folk artists Dan ...

Vining Fireworks Czechs Out

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VINING – One of the best small town fireworks displays erupted nearly a week before the July Fourth holiday this year on June 28, as part of Vining’s semiannual Potluck Picnic and Fireworks. As dusk descended Saturday evening on the Czech Trail community nestled in the Bohemie Alps, ...

Local fire departments respond to gas leak in Tama

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On Tuesday, June 24, both the Tama and Toledo Fire Departments responded to a punctured gas main on the 300 block of East 3rd Street in Tama. "Toledo Fire responded to mutual aid with Tama Fire to a gas leak in front of Warners grain elevator, a contractor doing correctional boring or ...

Full (wind) speed ahead

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News Chronicle Note: This story will publish in the Friday, July 11 edition of the newspaper. It is being published now ahead of the Wednesday, July 9 special meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors. TOLEDO – The possibility of Tama County heading to trial over the Board of ...

A One Stoplight play

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Once again legs will be broken at the Wieting Theater, as this year's stellar cast of the community play aspire for greatness. From Tom, the handyman, to The Green Bean Queen, to Bob, the grocer and cantankerous town crank, this little fictional town that revolves around a red stoplight may ...