TRAER - North Tama County Community School District held a Veterans Day breakfast and program on Monday, Nov. 11. High school students along with K-12 Principal Taylor Howard and high school history teacher Quentin Lamb served close to 40 people in the MPR beginning at 7:50 a.m., after ...
CORALVILLE — The North Tama volleyball team opened the state tournament at Xtream Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in heartbreaking fashion – falling to No. 4 Riverside in the Class 1A quarterfinals after what had been a glorious regional run. Fifth-seeded North Tama started hot, fell behind, ...
DYSART – The City of Dysart is one step closer to building a new public works facility. In mid-April of this year, Dysart City Hall received word their Black Hawk County Gaming Association grant application for $25,000 toward a new public works maintenance shop had been approved. One ...
GARWIN — Good things take time. When he was a freshman at Garwin High School, Orlyn Langenbau, who graduated in 1950 and went on to serve in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1956, noticed that there wasn’t a flag pole at the Garwin Union Cemetery just northeast of town and decided he ...
LA PORTE CITY – Following the narrow failure of Union Community School District’s $20.5 million bond referendum on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Superintendent John Howard sent a letter to district families. The letter is printed in full below. Dear Families, I want to thank our community members for ...
CLUTIER – Eleven ladies attended the Hora-Machacek Legion Auxiliary sewing day on Wednesday, November 6. They were: Collette W, Diane C, Pauline S, Linda D, Carolyn B, Julia B, Deb K, Rosemary V, Cyndy B, Valerie S, and Veronica P. They sewed lap quilt squares together and also put backs on ...
TOLEDO – Last week's dark gloomy Monday morning saw the regular group of meeting-goers stacked into the Tama County Board of Supervisors’ chambers. First up on this week's agenda was Dianna Cowan with a tax sale property. After some discussion, the supervisors approved the Clutier property ...
DES MOINES – Make plans now to attend the Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Show on November 15-17, in the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. This is Iowa's largest show, with over 300 talented exhibitors from eight states presenting and selling the ...
DES MOINES – After the driest September in 152 years of records, nearly all of October experienced similar record dry conditions, according to the latest Water Summary Update. October’s preliminary statewide precipitation was 1.90 inches, or 0.79 inches below normal. Total rainfall for ...
TOLEDO – History was made in Tama County this past Tuesday evening when voters elected a woman to the board of supervisors for the first time ever. Running unopposed on the Nov. 5 general election ballot for Tama County Supervisor District 3, Heather Knebel, a 35-year-old Republican from ...