Dear Editor,The national group, Food & Water Watch with staff here in Iowa, has recently brought to light the large number of factory farms in our county. In Tama County, alone, we currently have 45 factory farms that have gone through the DNR permitting process. (To view these, go to ...
Market Report for August 2, 2019It was an eventful night at the Toledo Farmers' Market. Sweet corn arrived and if you didn't stand there with your hands on it, it was gone with the flash of a bag. The red round tomato hasn't arrived yet. I am thinking that next Friday there should be ...
Have you had a chance to check out the outside of the new addition?Does the new parking lot meet your expectations? How about the retaining wall on the south side. Isn't it lovely and the fence and newly planted flowers and greenery. We have Denise Fletcher to thank for attending to the ...
President Trump just issued new rules that got little attention from the mainstream media, but stand to bring fresh economic opportunity to America's rural and disadvantaged communities. It's another example of ways, big and small, that the president is going to bat for the forgotten heartland ...
Letter to the Editor:(Written in response to a Letter to the Editor publsihed in The Chronicle on July 24)Tony Sheda if Trump is doing so great. Why did Rod Blum lose in Iowa when Trump campaigned for him?Fact the U.S. house became democrat under Trump. You wrote letters in the past against ...
A bipartisan team of senators on July 23 introduced a bill to repair a gaping hole created by the U.S. Supreme Court in June that keeps food stamp payments to retailers secret.The Open and Responsive Government Act, S 2220, is offered by Sens. Charles Grassley, R-IA; John Cornyn, R-TX; Patrick ...
Last February we started planning a baseball game & family reunion in July. The plan actually came to pass last week and for the most part, everything went as planned. Which is absolutely surprising considering we had a lot of families that needed to get involved, committed and on ...
Market Report for July 26, 2019It was a little breezy this Friday night of the Toledo Farmers' Market. It was a good night for catching up with friends and making your Toledo Farmers' Market purchases. No tomatoes have arrived yet. There maybe some little cherry ones next week. The sweet corn ...
We of the Wieting Theatre Guild would like to thank Mary Fasse Shaw and her husband Jeff Shaw for doing such a great job with the production of "Our Town."The community enjoyed all the extras that these two put into the end product. "Til next time we'll""See ya at the Wieting_ _ _"
To the Editor:We would like to publicly thank Kendall Jordan and all of his City of Toledo maintenance crew for the outstanding job they did in replacing the bridge on Madison St. As we are on a dead end road, along with a handful of other neighbors, an alternate access was created for us, ...