Market Report for September 6, 2019Wow, another busy night for the Toledo Farmers' Market. The customers were plentiful along with the vendors. With the blow of the whistle and the hustle of the customers the tables soon started to appear bare. We are very lucky to have such awesome vendors ...
With the school year back in full swing, this is a great time to talk about the importance of parent and community involvement in our local schools. Researchers, educators and policymakers alike have all noted the importance of parent involvement as a key factor in helping students learn at ...
Over the years things change, don't they? The Chelsea of 1960 is a whole lot different than today. But that's the way life is...........always evolving, always changing in some way, shape or form. Many times the older we get them more we probably don't like the changes. But we all adapt and ...
There's a day, a week or a month for everything these days. Some designations, of course, are more important than others. A designation I hope all of you will heed is this September's National Preparedness Month.No one wants to believe something terrible will happen to them. But sometimes it ...
Confess it! You'd done some insane things under the authorization of the DOT's failure to spot someone who shouldn't be drivingwell, let me speak for myself, anyway. Charging out of the garage one day, I forgot that I hadn't raise the garage door high enough. Then you spend the rest of that ...
Market Report for August 30, 2019It was another busy, entertaining night at the Toledo Farmers' Market. Iowa Premium. a National Company. was back grilling hamburgers on the large grill. Phil Shipley from Marshalltown was playing his guitar on the bandstand entertaining the crowd. All the ...
I'm not in the mood to write this column today but I know I must.Our family said goodbye to our eldest son Jimmy. He came down from Marshalltown to the Wieting almost every Friday to see the movie if it was one he wanted to see. He loved his hometown and the Wieting.I need to move on to the ...
We knew it was coming. A push to build a new school, or to completely remodel the middle school. It was easy to see was coming last winter when the district paid someone $12,500.00 to come in and find all the faults with the buildings we have. They even managed to find that the new elementary ...
In the past couple of months I've returned to the Tama-Toledo area a couple of times In July, Deb and I returned to celebrate our 50th Class Reunion. Hard to believe, it has been fifty years since the best class every from South Tama graduated. It probably wasn't a scientific poll but ...
Letter to the Editor:Why I'm running for Tama MayorToday I read where the City of Toledo is coming down on the lady that owns the kinck-knack shop on the strip. Abatement is one thing but out right harassment is another. She's been hassled for sleeping in the back of the shop. Who cares? Thomas ...