TOLEDO – During the October meeting of the Tama County Board of Conservation, a new policy regarding the placement of memorial benches in county parks was approved in the wake of public comments made at previous board meetings. The board unanimously approved the new policy during the ...
When Miguel Tirado’s legs were pinned this summer in a conveyor belt at an Iowa grain co-op, he didn’t think he’d make it home to his wife and daughters 1,300 miles away. “I thought I was going to die there,” said Tirado, 26, of Hidalgo, Texas. For more than 20 minutes on June 30, ...
CLUTIER – Clutier’s ZCBJ Lodge held an appreciation dinner for its members last Saturday evening at the local Hall. Roughly 30 members and their guests including Ollie Kremenak, 100, were in attendance. While the Lodge boasts more than 300 members with many still living in and around ...
TOLEDO – Not much was on the Tama County Board of Supervisors’ agenda on October 9. As usual, the Monday meeting started off with the Tama County Engineer giving his weekly report. The engineer said that the work on the Toledo Deer Creek Bridge is going as expected with the dirt crew ...
BUCKINGHAM – Geneseo Methodist Church will host a Soup Supper on Sunday, October 29 from 4-6 p.m. at the church home located at 3127 115th St., Buckingham. All proceeds from the supper’s freewill offering will support the Northeast Iowa Food Bank which serves over 100 agencies in 16 Iowa ...
Union High School students will be trick-or-treating for canned goods from 4-6 p.m. on Halloween in an annual effort to collect more than the students from Aplington-Parkersburg, Dike-New Hartford, and Hudson. Contact high school counselor Amy Kriz with your local address for a pick-up: ...
Knoxville — The Knights (35-11) traveled to Knoxville last Saturday for one final volleyball tournament to end their regular season where they knocked down five teams in succession to secure the tournament title including 1A No. 3 Holy Trinity Catholic, 2-0 in pool play, and 4A No. 3 (now ...
TRAER – Earlier this month, while visiting with Shaun Kennedy at Traer Ambulance as part of earning their first aid badges, brownie members with Girl Scout Troop 2857 were curious to know what all the rural ambulance director had experienced in his 26 years working in the emergency ...
RURAL DYSART – Irvine Prairie in rural Dysart was featured as part of this year’s annual Roadside Vegetation Conference – a conference organized by UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) for those working in one way or another in county roadside vegetation programs. While most of the ...
TRAER – North Tama high school student Johnathan Cochran spent part of last summer experiencing the trip of a lifetime. Cochran, a junior, is a talented musician on both the saxophone and the piano. As such, he was nominated by his band instructor Channing Halstead for the 2023 Iowa ...