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Tama County Cattlemen to hold annual banquet

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On Saturday February 26th, the Tama County Cattlemen will be hosting their annual banquet at the Gladbrook Memorial Building. The evening will begin with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., followed by a large prime rib dinner at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be catered by Spanky's with meat that was ...

Blood drive set for Feb. 23 in Tama

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Show your love by donating blood and impacting lives in the community. LifeServe Blood Center is urging community members to spread the love, roll up a sleeve and give blood as soon as possible! One blood donation has a huge local impact. In one hour, a single blood donor will help save or ...

PHOTOS: Tama Pump Ice Fishing Tournament at Union Grove State Park

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The Tama Pump bar and grill hosted an ice fishing tournament at Union Grove State Park on Jan. 22. This was the second such event the Tama-based business has organized over the past two years. Organizers said they were pleased with the turnout and were already looking forward to plans for next ...

STC Middle School Students of the Month – December

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A group of eight South Tama Middle School students were honored recently as being the Students of the Month for the month of December. These students were nominated by middle school staff for their excellent examples of respect, responsibility, and showing positive relationships. Pictured are ...

STC students part of Iowa Youth Congress

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Two local high school students are part of a statewide student leadership program that seeks to engage Iowa students of all backgrounds in the government process. South Tama County High School junior Libby Albright and senior Jonathan Meyer are part of this year’s Iowa Youth Congress. They ...

Paxton joins McFarland Clinic Marshalltown Family Medicine

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McFarland Clinic recently announced Stefanie Paxton, ARNP, has joined the McFarland Clinic Marshalltown’s Family Medicine Department as of February 1, 2022. Paxton received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Iowa College of Nursing in Iowa City. She earned her Masters ...

Local staff earn honors through ISU Extension

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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach county offices in the north central area announced award recipients for outstanding achievements in 2021. Cheryl Bruene, Jenny Hulme, and Sara Sorensen received the Excellence in COVID Recovery award for developing and engaging partnerships that ...

Downtown Tama committee to hold meeting Feb. 23

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A recently formed committee called the My Hometown Tama committee has been meeting and organizing small community betterment efforts for the downtown area in Tama over the past year. The group’s mission is to help make downtown Tama more attractive, welcoming and to encourage visitors and ...

Local masons building into third century

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One of Tama-Toledo’s oldest social organizations recently celebrated an incoming group of new officers into their leadership ranks. On the evening of Jan. 18 lodge members and their families gathered for the officer installation ceremony for the Hiram of Tyre Lodge #118 at their facility in ...

New supervisor districts approved

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New political boundaries for the three supervisor seats in Tama County have been drawn and approved for the next 10 years. The county-level redistricting process comes as a domino effect from the information drawn by the 2020 census and the state and federal redistricting maps approved by the ...