TOLEDO – Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) helps lower-income households file their tax returns for free, enabling them to receive the tax credits they’ve earned. Last year, VITA volunteers prepared and filed over 70 tax returns in Tama County. New volunteer tax preparers are needed to ...
TOLEDO – Last Monday morning, with dark, brooding clouds hanging low overhead in typical fall fashion, the usual county government onlookers filed in for the weekly supervisors’ meeting. The public comment time, which, as of late, has been filled with silence and idle chit chat due to ...
OTTER CREEK NATURE CENTER – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hosting an open house on Dec. 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Tama County Nature Center–Otter Creek Lake and Park, 2283 County Park Road, in Toledo, to discuss the habitat management, recreation use, forest ...
TOLEDO – In what has become a multiyear saga mired in controversy, the developers behind Salt Creek Wind (SCW) – the latest iteration of a central Tama County commercial wind energy project – might finally begin construction following the outcome of a contentious Tama County Zoning ...
TRAER – In the end the decision was quick and without much fanfare. During the Monday, Nov. 18 regular monthly meeting of the North Tama school board, a majority of members decided the time had finally come to drop from Class A varsity football to 8-Player. Following a very brief ...
TOLEDO – As the morning frost fought a losing battle against the rising sun of the new day, locals stretched, yawned, and made their way to the Nov. 12 meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors. Held on Tuesday due to the Veterans Day holiday, the meeting started off like it does most ...
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 ...
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 – 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 ...