Dear Editor: Earlier this year, I was driving through the school parking lot with my daughter, a teacher at South Tama, There, walking, was a girl who was wearing "short-shorts." When I say "short-shorts", I mean they barely covered her panty line. They could have passed for the bottom of a ...
Letter To the Editor: Do you remember? When Branstad was governor and he put a freeze on hiring and wages of the state employees. Not for 3 or 6 months, or 1 or 2 years but for 3 years. But, he gave himself a cozy pay raise. At the Veteran’s Home in Marshalltown, employees in positions of ...
Dear Editor: The difference between governor Culver and governor Brandstad. Governor Culver is spending money on highway construction, veterans home in Marshalltown, and juvenile home in Toledo. I remember governor Brandstad at ground breaking ceremony for a taxpayer horse track in ...
Letter to the Editor: I grew up in Tama. For nearly 60 Years I was able to enjoy Cherry Lake. As a Child I swam in the lake, I fished in the lake and walked completely around the lake in Play. As a young adult and even as I grew older I was able to drive down the south side to fish. We were ...
Letter to the Editor: When Bush was president, Jan Mickelson had Chuck Larson on and they were gun ho for the war. I remember them saying if you are against the war you must be a communist. Now Obama is president, Mickelson is against the war. Jan Mickelson the Des Moines, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. ...
Editor's Note: Hawkeye Valley Area Agency on Aging administers the Toledo Senior Meal Site Mobile Meals program for Tama County, and a variety of services for seniors. Letter to the Editor: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Older Americans Act into law 45 years ago on July 14, 1965. ...
Letter to the Editor: I can hardly wait until July 9th for the Stoplight festival. I hope it is a success for Toledo. I also like the new white base of the stoplight,it looks nice and bright. Maybe they could have someone put red stripes and/or blue stars on the base also. P.M. Henle Toledo
Letter to the Editor: ATTENTION: Parents of SR./JR. high students, I have been listening to the news this spring of schools across the nation about dress codes in different school settings. After working in the schools for some 9 years now and viewing some (much to be desired) clothing in the ...
Editor’s Note: Genesis Development stepped in one year ago and took over maangment of the former Tama County Care Facility (County Home)after problems surfaced and it faced possible closing. The care center is now known as Pheasant Ridge. An open house is planned this Saturday, June 26. ...
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article in the June 15, 2010 issue of the Toledo Chronicle on the "STC Buildings Study: Toledo Middle School has "greatest need." While I do not dispute that the middle school is in need of expansion and upgrading, I take issue with the idea that ...