On March 1, 2022, there will be a vote within the South Tama County Community School District. This vote will decide if South Tama Community School District will build a new middle school or remain in the current building. The Iowa Juvenile Home, which the state currently owns, is the proposed ...
So you all recently received the flyer in your mail about the Middle School going to become another abandoned building, provided the vote passes; because students can’t learn as well in a 106-year-old building that recently had over $1 million in repairs and updates. That even though all the ...
Tama-Grundy Publishing is excited to welcome native Tama Countian David Voigts as its newest columnist. Voigts is a retired ecologist and the current Conservation Chair for the Prairie Rapids Audubon Society. Having grown up in rural Tama County, Voigts spent many youthful days hunting and ...
Throughout history there have been many great love affairs and couples. Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Adam and Eve, Clark and Lois, Archie and Edith, Sonny and Cher and so on and so forth. But there is one love story that has been hidden in the annals of history for many years. It is the love ...
This Friday marks the end of week three for the 2022 legislative session. We have continued to have subcommittees on a wide range of policy proposals. As we narrow down the focus of the bills we expect to move through committee and the full Senate chamber, time becomes of the essence. This ...
Week three of the session is done and things are moving along rapidly. However, this past week has been a slow one for me personally. I came down with symptoms of Covid over the weekend, tested positive and had to spend five days in quarantine at home. Symptoms were mild, but I followed the ...
There was this bully who always picked on this poor kid just about every single day. The kid would be threatened, pushed around and teased by the bully. Finally the kid had had enough. When he saw the bully the next day, he drew a line in the dirt and challenged the bully to cross over that ...
The other day I was a-thinking. Yea, I do think every now and then but not too darn much so as to get a headache. But I was thinking, (money being no object), what would I give all of you for Christmas if I could. New cars for everyone came to mind; huge raises for all; the Christmas lights ...
It all started the day after Thanksgiving when a shipment of 75-100 Christmas Trees came to our grocery store for sale to one and all. What an exciting time. The fresh smell of all those pine-fir trees was enough to make a kid of ten or eleven feel as if he's in heaven. It's 1960 and it's ...
Well my good friends, the beginning of December is here. Thanksgiving is over and the Christmas season is now officially here. How many can go back eleven months and remember those resolutions or goals we made back on January first? Hmmm, I have only about 30 days or so to lose 25 pounds, ...