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 ...
TRAER – The 2024 Holiday Happenings parade lit up downtown Traer last Friday evening as part of the Chamber of Commerce’s annual two-day holiday extravaganza. Ahead of the parade — which ventured down Second Street amid seasonably cold but perfectly calm weather just after 6:30 p.m. ...
TOLEDO – After serving for more than 18 years at the helm of the Tama County Auditor’s Office where she has handled everything from county budgets to elections to clerking for the board of supervisors, Laura Kopsa is set to retire. Kopsa, 63, a Democrat from Tama, said her decision to ...
TRAER – A pair of retirements by longtime members of the Traer community dominated the most recent meeting of the Traer City Council. During the Monday, Dec. 2 regular meeting, the resignation of council member Jon Panfil was approved following the news Panfil and his wife Diane are ...
TRAER – The non-profit, community-supported Traer Theatre is back and ready for the holiday season with a new Sunday matinee! The theater’s December lineup offers a great holiday list of family movies for all to enjoy including “The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever” playing Dec. ...
DYSART –Dysart’s Christmas on Main – the Dysart Development Corporations’ annual kickoff to the holiday season – was held on Saturday, Dec. 7, and, according to event organizers, was another huge success. While Santa and Mrs. Claus were in attendance at the community building mostly ...
CLUTIER – The Auxiliary did not have a December meeting. January 7, 2025, will be a sewing day beginning at 9 a.m. We will sew lap quilts for Veterans and cut grocery bags for crocheting into sleep mats. Potluck lunch at noon. Monthly meeting in the afternoon. If weather may be an issue, ...
TOLEDO – After waking up to a county blanketed in a dove white fluffy coating of snow, the usual Monday morning group of government conscious citizens sullied the fallen snowflakes with their footprints as they came out to attend last week's supervisors meeting. Tama County Engineer Ben ...
December will be an interesting month in the sky. Brilliant Venus will be unmistakable, shining in a fully dark sky. It will set about three hours after the Sun in early December, and it will climb even higher before it starts to descend in late January. Saturn will rule southwestern sky where ...
WAVERLY – Karsyn Miller has been accepted into the Wartburg College Teacher Education Program. Miller, of La Porte City, had to demonstrate effective reflective components in teaching and complete several other requirements to be considered for the program. Admission to the Teacher ...