Relocating the kitchen and food storage to a commons area provides ground-level access, improving efficiency for students, staff, and deliveries. Currently, all inventory and food must be transported from the basement to the ground floor via elevator. This requires staff to move through ...
On November 4, 2025, the Union Community School District voters will decide on a bond referendum that would allow us to make much-needed updates to all our schools in our district. As your elected school board, we want to share why this decision matters and what it would mean for our students, ...
Union Community School District has placed a bond referendum before voters this fall that addresses critical facility needs, including a long-discussed new bus barn and replacement of the district greenhouse. Both projects support our broader goal of upgrading infrastructure and enhancing ...
President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 draft budget calls for the defunding of many critical programs provided to older persons across the country. The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) provides Medicare beneficiaries with information, counseling, and enrollment assistance. Its ...
Some people are builders, and others are destroyers. Some people want to help others by creating new opportunities, giving them new skills, or finding new ways to help them achieve their dreams. Other people want to create obstacles, deny opportunities, or frustrate their hopes. Take the ...
In response to Rep. Dean Fisher's 3/21/2025 editorial. Rep. Dean Fisher’s latest assault on Iowa’s libraries isn’t about protecting taxpayers or children – it’s about silencing viewpoints he dislikes and keeping voters scared, uninformed, and easy to control. His support for House ...
House File 880 (Formerly HF 284) is a bill that seeks to prevent Iowa Libraries from being members of the Iowa Library Association and the American Library Association (ALA) by restricting funds to them if they are dues paying members of these organizations. Those dues are paid for by taxpayer ...
Former Board of Supervisor, Bill Faircloth, is complaining about a problem that will not exist once the new supervisors get the already approved, livestreaming system up and running, which should be soon. Presently, I can log on to the Tama Livestock Auction and watch my cattle being sold ...
I coached multiple sports when I was a teacher, and my teams were pretty successful. I coached in big games, had the opportunity to coach multiple ranked teams and even had the privilege of coaching basketball at the state tournament four times and golf at that same level five times. In fact, ...
Thank you New Crew. We are undergoing many changes in Tama County at a crucial time. Solar and wind are trying to take our land. Pipelines are a rumor in North Tama County. Finances are a disaster as we have discovered a huge shortage of money to operate on for 2025, immediately! Be involved ...