MARSHALLTOWN – Legendary Iowa high school baseball coach Kent Stock, subject of the 2007 movie “The Final Season” — a true story filmed mostly in nearby Benton County in 2006 — visited and spoke at the Iowa Veterans Home last week Thursday, Aug. 15, and autographed copies of his book ...
DES MOINES – Whether it was food, livestock, competitions, concerts or entertainment, the Iowa State Fair found a record-breaking cure for FAIR FEVER, August 8-18, 2024. The largest Fair in its 170-year-old history, Fair Fever attendance totaled a whopping 1,182,682 Fairgoers. The previous ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT - The 108th Annual Meskwaki Powwow wrapped up on Sunday at the Powwow Grounds located on the Settlement about four miles west of Tama. The four-day event celebrated various groups throughout the weekend, including a Veterans’ Day program on Saturday. Attendees came from ...
TAMA - An individual was found dead after first responders were called to a house fire in the 600 block of Hall Street in Tama last Friday morning, according to a press release from the Tama Police Department. The Tama PD, Tama Fire Department, Toledo Fire Department and Tama EMS were ...
MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — With classes officially underway as of Thursday, the Meskwaki Settlement School is welcoming two women into important leadership roles — one a new face and the other extremely familiar to MSS families. Johanna Cooper, a native of Puerto Rico who most recently ...
On Monday night, the STC school board met and worked through some business regarding the upcoming 2024-2025 school year. Many positions remain open throughout the district with the most pressing openings at the high school level. Building administrators reported their solutions for the staff ...
TOLEDO — George and Virginia Kunch left a legacy when they donated their 162-acre family farm in Tama County to the people of Iowa in 2005. Gone are the buildings, cottonwood trees and ag fields. In their place is a diverse reconstructed prairie with wild bergamot, prairie blazing star, cup ...
TOLEDO - On a drizzly rainy Monday morning, the usual suspects started their week by gathering for the supervisors meeting. After 15 minutes of absolute silence where no one had a public comment, the Tama County Engineer, Ben Daleske, kicked off the meeting with his report saying that Iowa ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison. Javier Santiz-Santiz, age 32, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in Tama, Iowa, received the prison ...
The Monday Toledo City Council meeting started off with approving the renewal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) agreement regarding fires. Next on the agenda was what everyone showed up for, the discussion about the safe routes to school grant application and funding. The council heard a ...