TAMA COUNTY – From the biggest snowfall of the season (thus far) to scathing winds and a surge of Arctic cold, it’s been one beast of a weather week here in Iowa. Although it started relatively slowly, the Tama County area generally received an estimated four to six inches of snow ...
TOLEDO – Tama County’s 911 communications director has parted ways with the county. Jeremy Cremeans, now-former Tama County 911 Communications Director, voluntarily entered into a severance agreement with the Tama County E-911 Service Board on Jan. 31, 2025 – an agreement that upon ...
TOLEDO - The fallout from the controversial firing of former Tama County Human Resources Manager and Insurance Administrator Tammy Wise continued on Monday, Feb. 10, as the board of supervisors once again discussed reassigning the duties of the HR department at the top of the agenda. After ...
TOLEDO – Did you know that Iowa has a unique funding source for free or low-cost annual testing of private wells? Or that some water pollutants are odorless, tasteless and will not be removed by boiling water? If you’re curious about the answers to these questions, then take advantage of ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County will host a Certified Handlers Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) on Wednesday, March 12. The program, provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP), is available at office locations ...
TOLEDO – Last Monday (Feb. 3) in a vote of 3-2, the Tama County Board of Supervisors terminated the county’s longtime human resources manager while also beginning the difficult work of addressing a looming nearly $1 million budget shortfall. During the latter part of the meeting which ...
DES MOINES – The Times-Republican (T-R) and the Tama-Grundy newspapers took home a total of eight first-place awards across editorial, photography, website, and advertising categories during the annual Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) awards banquet held at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines ...
GLADBROOK – For the first time in many years, Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) alumna Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru no longer wears a tiara and she’s ok with that. Over a year ago, Bru, who hails from a farm in rural Gladbrook and graduated from GMG last May, was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen ...
WEST DES MOINES – Cordt Holub of Tama County has been named a semi-finalist in the Iowa Farm Bureau’s Young Farmer Conference Discussion Meet. Unlike a debate, the Discussion Meet promotes an exchange of ideas and explores solutions to key challenges facing agriculture. Participants are ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “Roots to Rivers: Exploring the Connection Between Soil Health and Water Quality.” It will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center, 1007 S. Prospect Drive in Toledo, Iowa, 9 ...