Again, walking through melting snow and cold temperatures, citizens showed up for this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting a little more chilled than last week. Home health was once again an agenda item and subject of discussion, and a memorandum was approved to be sent to the Tama County ...
MARSHALLTOWN — After two years without another engineer on the city staff besides herself, Marshalltown Public Works Director Heather Thomas is excited to welcome former Tama County Engineer Ben Daleske to her team as a Civil Engineer II and get him up to speed on a wide range of ongoing ...
July 4, 2026, will be the last year for fireworks set off by the City of Toledo. At Monday’s Toledo Council meeting, the council decided to take out the line item from the 2027 fiscal year. Unless citizens fundraise or a donation of money comes in, the city will not be putting on fireworks in ...
In the Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 story "‘Not personal': Public health and home care budget takes center stage at supervisors meeting," Tama County Public Health & Home Care Clinical Manager LeeAnna Kriegel was quoted by the newspaper as stating during the meeting: “We live in a county that ...
TOLEDO – The Tama County Historical Society will present the program “Iowa’s Religious History” on Wednesday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m. at the Wieting Theatre, 101 S. Church St, Toledo. The program will be given by Clutier’s Bill R. Douglas, author of “The People Are Kind: A ...
March will be a very special month with several interesting events happening in the sky. Foremost is a total eclipse of the Moon on March 3. However, nature will play a cruel trick by having the eclipse in the very early morning. You will need to stay up late or get up early to see it. ...
DES MOINES – Vaccines have gotten some attention from the Iowa Legislature this year. One bill — House File (HF) 2287 — proposes banning the sale, distribution and administration of vaccines unless manufacturers give up federal liability immunity. A subcommittee recommended passage of the ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “From Seed to Strategy: Intentional Cover Crop Management,” on Thursday, March 26, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center. The workshop will feature several speakers focusing on ...
TRAER – The Tama County Pork Producers (TCPP) held the organization’s annual banquet and meeting on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at the Traer Memorial Building. Some 60 individuals were in attendance this year – a slightly smaller crowd than banquets past due to weather, illness, and ...
It’s 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12. The sun is shining and there is a light breeze. The last of the snow is melting, and the Toledo Fire Department is just pulling out of our driveway. It seemed like a good day to start some yard work and maybe burn the fence row. I doubted the ...