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Tama council discusses action on abandoned homes

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Tama City Councilman Larry Thomas brought forth an idea that could solve the city's issue with several abandoned and beat up buildings during Monday night’s regular meeting. A grant the city can apply for would provide up to $500,000 as a five year zero percent interest loan. Thomas is ...

Summer Fun for Kids at the Wieting

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Do you love art, creative writing, dance, music and theatre? In the “All About the Art’s Camp” we will explore different types of art each day. Class will include the “wildly popular” segments by our own Eric “Ro” Rosario, who will lead and inspire students to create art they ...

All State Park Tour Coming to Gladbrook

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Jump in your favorite car, fire up the engine, roll down the windows, turn up the radio, and put on your biggest smile. It is time to hit the road to show your support for state parks in Iowa. The crew for Anna Rea the 1930 Ford Model A invites everybody to drive along for the visit to Union ...

Proposed Tama County hog confinement proves controversial

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TIMES-REPUBLICAN TOLEDO — Iowa Select Farms sent Ken Pliner and three other representatives to meet with the Tama County Board of Supervisors on April 25 to answer questions and concerns from the community. The main frustration from residents who attended the meeting was a lack of ...

Mobile food drive serves over 190 families

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Families have to eat, and in uncertain times such as these — when 297,800 Iowans are facing hunger according to Feeding America — communities need to come together as often as they can. That’s exactly what Living Faith Methodist Church has been attempting to do by helping the community ...

Wind energy moratorium request enters round two

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It was round two this past Monday morning during the standing-room only Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting in Toledo for members of the coalition group Tama County Against Turbines as they again asked the supervisors to enact a moratorium on any new wind energy projects in the county as ...

Food Pantry Report March 2022

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The generous programs associated with the COVID pandemic have been terminated which has impacted the amounts of food available to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank which supplies the STC Food Pantry. Therefore, we are returning to our pre-pandemic policy of distributing locally donated and ...

Piano students hold recitals at library

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Piano students of Sharon Owens and Carri Holst held two recitals on April 23rd and April 24th, at the Kupka Cultural Center in the Traer Public Library. Twenty students performed, ranging from 1st grade to 10th grade. Following the program a reception to congratulate the students on their ...

Hinson visits Tama, discusses Iowa Premium plant

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U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) visited the Iowa Premium plant on April 21, and although media was not allowed inside the building for this visit, Hinson dropped by the offices of the Tama-Toledo News Chronicle to talk about her visit and stake her claim as to why she deserves to be reelected ...

1400 Hours of Volunteer Work Helps Bring Vaccines to Tama

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Tama County Pork Producers (Bill and Sheryl Jessina) assisted Tama County Public Health and Home Care recognizing the Tama County Volunteer Medical Reserve Corp on Wednesday, April 20, for volunteer appreciation week. “Due to the efforts of all the volunteers that assisted Tama County Public ...