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Traer’s ‘fireproof’ public school

Education

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles documenting the history of the school buildings in North Tama County Community School District courtesy of the Traer Historical Museum. TRAER – Just two months after the April fire destroyed the nine-year-old school building, ...

Clutier High School Alumni annual banquet set for April 5

Education

CLUTIER – The Clutier High School Alumni Association will hold its annual banquet on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at the Clutier Legion Hall. Social hour will begin at 4 p.m., with dinner following at 6 p.m. BYOB. Honored classes this year include 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and ...

Hora-Machacek Auxiliary holds meeting, final sewing day until fall

Local News

CLUTIER – Hora-Machacek Legion Auxiliary held their last sewing day for this season on March 4. The ladies sewing lap quilts were: Ronda E, Brenda H, Deb K, Michelle B, Collette W, and Pauline S. Collette and Diane had readied 10 lap quilts on Tuesday, Feb. 18, so ladies had quilts to sew ...

Budget business

Local News

TOLEDO – The usual suspects congregated last Monday morning (March 3) for the weekly Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting saw a whopping 25 items on the mammoth-sized agenda be discussed, acted on, and generally mulled over. The first box to get ticked ...

Knights UPSET Knights

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DES MOINES – Most predicted the Knights would prevail in last Saturday’s Class 2A Substate 6 final played at Drake University’s Knapp Center, they just didn’t think it would be Union’s Knights. “Heading into the game I would say we were extremely confident. We talked in the ...

History disrespected

Local News

TRAER – There are many ways to pay one’s respects - haphazardly driving through a nearly 170-year-old cemetery and causing damage to headstones is certainly not one of those ways. “Sometime in mid-January, a vehicle drove through the West Union Cemetery, located southeast of Traer, ...