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 ...
Telegraph note: This story was first published by the newspaper Edgerton Enterprise (based in Edgerton, Minn.) in June of 2024 and is being republished here, with permission, as a courtesy to our readers. Note from the author: When the Edgerton/Ellsworth Flying Dutchmen football team ...
TRAER – Members of the North Tama Class of 1969 celebrated their 55th reunion at this year’s Winding Stairs Festival held in early August. Those pictured include, first row (seated l-r): Anne (Hatton) Dengler, Janet (Beenken) McKenna, Deb (Hladik) Halupnick, Judy (Mundt) Burghart, Sue ...
TRAER - North Tama County Community School District held a Veterans Day breakfast and program on Monday, Nov. 11. High school students along with K-12 Principal Taylor Howard and high school history teacher Quentin Lamb served close to 40 people in the MPR beginning at 7:50 a.m., after ...
CORALVILLE — The North Tama volleyball team opened the state tournament at Xtream Arena on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in heartbreaking fashion – falling to No. 4 Riverside in the Class 1A quarterfinals after what had been a glorious regional run. Fifth-seeded North Tama started hot, fell behind, ...
TRAER – Brick dedications are again being offered as part of the Taylor Park Military Memorial in an effort to add a new battlefield cross to the site. Traer resident Dahn Kennedy, founder of the “Hometown Hearts” Project, is spearheading the effort for the City of Traer much as she did ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – A woman who stole over $450,000 from a family‑owned business was sentenced Oct. 30, 2024, to two years in federal prison. Leann Marie Rouse, 51, from Toledo, Iowa, received the prison term after a May 31, 2024 guilty plea to one count of wire fraud. Evidence disclosed ...
TRAER – The Traer Theatre reopened on Friday, Nov. 1, for the first time since temporarily closing at the end of July in the wake of longtime theater manager Mona Larsen’s retirement. In the interim, the nonprofit community theater’s board hired a new manager – Madonna Madorin of Traer. ...
TRAER – Jaxen Daniels, a member of North Tama High School Class of 2024, officially graduated during the Monday, Oct. 21 school board meeting held in the junior high commons. After a unanimous vote by those board members present approving Daniels had met all requirements for graduation, ...