Once the switch for the sun was flipped on and Monday began, those usual meeting goers made their way to the Tama County Supervisors meeting. The meeting started with a lengthy exempt session that had a group loitering in the hall, waiting for the regular meeting to start. The roads ...
St. John Lutheran Church will celebrate 150 years on Sunday, October 18, 2026. The church itself had its beginning in a one room country school house in Columbia Township about 6 ½ miles southwest of Tama in 1876 by a group of German immigrants. In 1894 after having outgrown its ...
History is being made all over Tama-Toledo these days. Last week, a group of civic leaders gathered in the pouring rain to break ground on a project years in the making. The Woodlawn Housing addition is being developed by Toledo Ventures LLC, aka John (Andy) R. Anderson. Anderson spoke ...
CHELSEA — When the News Chronicle first spoke with Rob Fattig about two years ago, the South Tama County (STC) alum who had returned to his hometown of Chelsea and taken a job with the local bank was kickstarting efforts to raise funds for a true community park in the green space between ...
Hoorah! Hoorah! Homecoming has come again, bringing with it all of the usual mayhem and mania. With hoops and hollers and yelps of joy, heaps of candy were thrown in the annual parade. Music reverberated off the city streets as the STC marching band bounded down the road to the smiles of the ...
The South Tama County Board of Education has selected Grundmeyer Leader Services to conduct the district’s search for its next superintendent. With four board members present and Danya Keahna absent, the board approved Grundmeyer on a 3-1 vote. Rick Hopper made the motion to hire the firm, ...
The 2026 Meskwaki Settlement School Homecoming Court has been announced. King Candidates are Sevastian Scabbyrobe, Gregory Keahna, Layne Steuhm Wolf and Dontavious Slick-Driscoll (not pictured). Queen candidates are Karsyn Wolf, Eva Roberts, Zola Davenport and Isabella Kapayou.
This week’s Tama City Council meeting started with an update on a nuisance property, and they decided to extend the deadline for the property's cleanup. Next up, there were two public hearings, the first being for the water plant. With no comment, the council approved the environmental ...
As the sun shone down on a chilly Monday, locals waltzed through the breeze over crunching leaves to this week’s Tama County Supervisors meeting. The roads department reported dealing with the rain and washouts. They’ve also been hauling rock, mowing, and are planning to get the durapatcher ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — An Elberon man who threatened to shoot up a community event and who sent multiple people threatening messages featuring guns was sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in federal prison. Daniel Scott Carter, age 42, received the prison term after a May 1, 2026, guilty ...