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Communitywide yard sales return to Tama-Toledo Sept. 12-13

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Mark your calendars! The Tama-Toledo Community Yard Sale Weekend is back on Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13, featuring different sales spread across both communities. This event, coordinated by Charles Betz of Tama, follows on the heels of a successful citywide sale earlier this ...

State Fair announces Tama County Ag & Horticulture winners

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The 2025 Iowa State Fair has finished judging and named the top three place winners in corn, soybeans, grains, grasses and legumes categories. The winners by place and town are listed below. Field Corn - Hybrid Commercial, Single Ear - Becky Poduska, of Chelsea, first Field Corn - Hybrid ...

Roadway closure of Iowa 8 begins on Sept. 9

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Those driving on Iowa 8 between Traer and Dysart will need to be aware of the upcoming closure of Iowa 8 that may slow down a trip, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Marshalltown construction office. Beginning at 7 a.m. on Sept. 9, through Oct.10, weather permitting, ...

‘A promise to our kids and the future’

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TOLEDO — After years of planning, failed bond attempts, leadership transitions, and years of construction, leaders of the South Tama County Community School District officially cut the ribbon on the new middle school in Toledo — the former Iowa Juvenile Home — on Thursday ...

Taking flight

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A new era in local education began on Monday as the South Tama County Middle School officially opened to students and staff on the former Iowa Juvenile Home campus, and the newly established, nondenominational Tama-Toledo Christian School (TTCS) welcomed 33 students in grades K-8 for the first ...

Basement dwellers

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This week’s Toledo City Council meeting saw the possible end to an ongoing local situation. Angie Blocker, fresh off her Toledo Board of Adjustment meeting from the week prior, went before the council to again talk about the basement apartment in her newly purchased uptown Toledo building on ...

Toledo Bandstand to receive a facelift

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Toledo Bandstand to receive a facelift TOLEDO — Toledo Bandstand renovations are set to begin in full swing beginning on Sept. 8, with an 8 a.m. groundbreaking ceremony. Located on the east side of the Tama County Courthouse lawn in downtown Toledo, it has served as the site for countless ...