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Toledo Farmers Market

Local Columns

Market Report for October 11, 2019The chill was definitely in the air this Friday night of the Toledo Farmers' Market.A few vendors choose to stay home and seven choose to set up to sell those items before the end of the season.Kristi brought cookies, kolaches, twisty, cinnamon rolls, pecan ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

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To continue with the rest of this years events at the Wieting Theatre, they are:Nov. 22 - Dec. 8- movie Frozen 2 with a pancake or waffle breakfast one of the Saturdays with a matineeNov. 23 Holiday Explosion Dinner, soup supper before and after the paradeNov. 24- Snow- Seymour Christmas for ...

Our founders wanted the press to shine its spotlight

Editorials

Fifty-three years ago, I was a high school kid in southern Iowa who knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life: I wanted to be a journalist.The first step on that journey occurred when I walked into the offices of the Bloomfield Democrat and introduced myself to Gary Spurgeon. He was the ...

A Corporate Comeback Story

Editorials

In many ways, Tama, Iowa, population 2,775, is like many other similar-sized towns around the Midwest. For example, it has its fair share of challenges, from attracting and maintaining retail businesses downtown, to keeping up with an aging housing stock as values decrease and its population ...

October-The greatest month of the year!!

Local Columns

As we begin this great month, we all enjoy the superb fall colors that surround us before we head into the big holidays and the cold, frigid, snowy phenomenon called winter. But for now we have October, a most beautiful month of the year that includes so many treasures.First of all, October is ...

Unanswerable questions of life!

Local Columns

Why do we do what we do? I noticed a child the other day sucking on their thumb; but I've seen others the same age, sucking on other fingers. One child was sucking on all of them. What's that about, anyway?Why do some people write with their right hand? I write with my left. Since we know ...

Touring the Evening Skies

Local Columns

Every now and then I am asked, "What is it about astronomy that excites you so much?" After all, some have said, not much changes from year to year. I have to admit that they are right, M13 looks the same this year as it did the first time I saw it: a fuzzy ball in Hercules surrounded by tiny ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

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The Wieting Theatre is getting ready for a very busy finish to this year.The high school is rehearsing for "Cinderella". It will be performed at the Wieting on Thursday, October 31 through Sunday, November 3.The new Hy-Vee store will be conducting job interviews at the Wieting center starting ...