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Herrera promoted to customer service supervisor

Business

Pinnacle Bank announces the promotion of Hilda Herrera to customer service supervisor. Herrera has been a valued employee of the bank and has a wealth of knowledge in customer service with her most current position being customer service representative. She provides the highest level of ...

joins Pinnacle Bank as AVP/Portfolio Manager

Business

Pinnacle Bank announces the addition of Amanda Johnston to its staff as assistant vice president/portfolio manager. Johnston graduated from AIB College of Business, in June 2011, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She has 19 years of banking experience, having worked most ...

STC alum Mike Buresh named National Weatherperson of the Year

Local News

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — It all started back in second grade for Mike Buresh. The Toledo native and 1982 South Tama County High School graduate was attending a parochial school in Tama when his teacher told the class that the sun was out, but it was snowing at the same time. For some reason, ...

News Chronicle wins five first place awards at annual INA banquet

Local News

DES MOINES — Newspapers across Iowa celebrated another successful year during the annual INA Convention and awards banquet at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines last Thursday, and staff at both the Times-Republican and Tama-Grundy weekly publications came home with several accolades. “The ...

STC facing over $1 million in budget cuts

Local News

Citing the twin factors of declining enrollment and the expiration of federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds aimed to help school districts through the COVID-19 pandemic, South Tama County Superintendent John Cain proposed just over $1 million in budget cuts to ...

Missing money

Local News

On Feb. 3, Toledo resident Naomi Rae Winders was arrested on a charge of first degree theft. Winders reportedly embezzled $15,000 from her job at Pinnacle Bank, where she worked as a teller, between August 2022 and October 2023. A criminal complaint alleges that Winders took the money from ...

Gunshots heard last Friday

Local News

Around noon on Friday, Feb. 9 at South Tama Elementary, students and staff heard what sounded like gunshots. Taking precautions, the school went on lockdown, as the children were taken in from recess. After some investigation by the Toledo Police Department, the sounds were found to be some ...

Cameras and felonies

Local News

Wolfcom was the main topic of this week's Toledo Council meeting. Wolfcom is the Toledo Police department's previous camera system. The police department switched systems mid-last year. Four to five years' worth of footage from the old cameras are stored on Wolfcom's cloud. Toledo's access to ...

Coaches vs. Cancer event raises nearly $700

Local News

This year, the South Tama County and Meskwaki Settlement School basketball programs came together in a joint effort to raise money in the fight against cancer by hosting a Coaches vs. Cancer event on February 5, 2024. This was a varsity girl-boy double header game that was originally scheduled ...