TAMA COUNTY – The Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is partnering with the National Association of Conservation Districts, Conservation Districts of Iowa and Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company in celebrating Stewardship Week from April 27 – May 4, 2025. Kindergarten ...
CORALVILLE — The Iowa girls high school wrestling state tournament finals can feel more like a concert than a wrestling tournament: Pyro, fog, frantic lights and thumping music. When the whistle blew though, Autumn Elsbury clocked into work, and the South Tama County junior capped an ...
TOLEDO — After graduating from South Tama County High School, Rita Dostal was looking for a job while she studied at Marshalltown Community College (MCC) when she found one as a resident treatment worker (RTW) at the Iowa Veterans Home in 1969. She didn’t have a car at the time, so she ...
DES MOINES – The Times-Republican (T-R) and the Tama-Grundy newspapers took home a total of eight first-place awards across editorial, photography, website, and advertising categories during the annual Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) awards banquet held at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines ...
The fallout from the controversial firing of former Tama County Human Resources Manager and Insurance Administrator Tammy Wise continued on Monday morning as the board of supervisors once again discussed reassigning the duties of the HR department at the top of the agenda. After the ...
GLADBROOK – For the first time in many years, Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) alumna Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru no longer wears a tiara and she’s ok with that. Over a year ago, Bru, who hails from a farm in rural Gladbrook and graduated from GMG last May, was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen ...
At Monday’s South Tama County board meeting, work based learning was a lengthy discussion. High school counselor Dan Lopez and iJAG specialist Jill Kienzle presented to the board on current progress being made in that area. Driven by Iowa Senate File 2411, schools in the state are working ...
On Monday, it took everyone longer to take a seat than to actually have the Toledo City Council meeting. In a 'blink or you'll miss it event,’ the council meeting had a lone agenda item. Andrew Bunce was sworn into office as a City of Toledo Police Officer. Bunce is 46, married with ...
In a story that ran in last week’s News Chronicle, Tama County Supervisor Heather Knebel was quoted as saying that PJ Greufe and Associates does human resources and insurance work for all of the Heartland Insurance Risk Pool counties. On Monday afternoon, Hardin County Supervisor BJ Hoffman ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “Roots to Rivers: Exploring the Connection Between Soil Health and Water Quality.” It will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center, 1007 S. Prospect Drive in Toledo, Iowa, 9 ...