TRAER – Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) announces its 52nd event: “Into the Wild: Safe Mushroom Foraging.” The event will be held on Wednesday, March 26, at Traer Public Library’s Kupka Cultural Center, 531 Second Street. Registration and dessert will begin at 6:30 p.m. with ...
CLUTIER – The Clutier High School Alumni Association will hold its annual banquet on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at the Clutier Legion Hall. Social hour will begin at 4 p.m., with dinner following at 6 p.m. BYOB. Honored classes this year include 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and ...
IOWA – The Iowa DNR is actively searching for top-notch volunteers who love to camp and enjoy meeting people to serve as campground hosts for the 2025 camping season at several state parks and forests. Campground hosts serve as welcoming guides to the park by checking in campers, answering ...
TAMA — Congratulations to Josey Wacha of rural Tama. Wacha is this year's recipient of Tama Soil & Water Conservation District's $1,000 High School Scholarship and is the daughter of Bryan and Angela Wacha. She is finishing her senior year at South Tama County High School before heading ...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on wildlife management areas managed by the Iowa DNR’s Iowa River – Otter Creek Unit in Tama, Iowa, Benton and Mahaska counties. Areas scheduled for prescribed burns include the Iowa River Corridor in ...
Last Thursday, the Reinig Center was filled with citizens looking to learn a thing or two. Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt knew that a scam prevention seminar like this could provide important information to them. Investigator Al Perales, who has ...
The usual suspects congregated Monday morning for this week's Supervisors meeting. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting saw a whopping 25 items on the mammoth-sized agenda be discussed, acted on, and generally mulled over. The first box to get ticked was the engineer's report. They hauled rock on ...
When you walk into the South Tama County High School, many things are there to greet you, often an art gallery. A table just outside the main office holds several pieces of student artwork on display for people to admire. This month's gallery of glorious art sits on the shoulders of two ...
Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to this July. This is the second reset in the case. After being arrested in February 2024 in connection with her husband Ryan Cooper’s murder, the trial was originally set to begin on Oct. 1, 2024, before being moved for the ...
MARSHALLTOWN — When Sadie Weekley first came to the Marshalltown Police Department (MPD) all the way back in 2007 after working as a Tama County jailer and as a patrol officer for the city of Toledo, the Dysart native was intrigued by the possibility of moving into a leadership role, but she ...