TOLEDO – History was made in Tama County this past Tuesday evening when voters elected a woman to the board of supervisors for the first time ever. Running unopposed on the Nov. 5 general election ballot for Tama County Supervisor District 3, Heather Knebel, a 35-year-old Republican from ...
TOLEDO - The long-awaited day has come and gone. Tuesday saw Tama County residents strolling under rain leaking clouds to cast their votes. Sitting at a table beneath a partition like they're taking at school, locals voted not only for president but for bond issues and supervisors. The ...
Ahead of the Nov. 5 election, Tama-Grundy Publishing correspondent Michael Davis sent questionnaires to all the candidates running for the Tama County Board of Supervisors. This week we feature our final set of responses: David Turner who is running unopposed for District 2 as a Republican. ...
TOLEDO – It may be ‘October’ but news that Mark Doland, Republican nominee for Tama County Supervisor District 4, previously resigned from his position as a Mahaska County supervisor will be no ‘surprise’ to many. In a letter to the editor printing this week (page 4), Tama County ...
Mark Doland, 48, is the Republican nominee for Tama County Supervisor District 4. He lives in rural Toledo (seven miles northwest of the city limits) with his wife Gwendy (Thede) Doland; they have five daughters and three sons. He works as a probation officer. His educational background ...
Berleen Wobeter, 67, is the Democratic nominee for Tama County Supervisor District 4. She lives on a farm north of Toledo. She was raised on her family’s farm in northern Tama County; after marrying her husband Pete Wobeter, they moved to their current farm where they raised two children, ...
Ahead of the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election, Tama-Grundy Publishing correspondent Michael Davis sent questionnaires to all the candidates running for the Tama County Board of Supervisors. This week we feature responses from Republican Curt Kupka of Chelsea and Democrat Bruce Lenhart of Tama who ...
Editor's note: A photo was not made available to the newspaper for Lenhart. Ahead of the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election, Tama-Grundy Publishing correspondent Michael Davis sent questionnaires to all the candidates running for the Tama County Board of Supervisors. This week we feature responses ...
A crowd of around 100 interested spectators from around House District 53 filed into the Tama American Legion on Monday night to hear from incumbent Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) and challenger Tommy Hexter (D-Grinnell) during a forum sponsored by the local chapter of the American Association of ...
On Monday, Sept. 30, Republican incumbent Dean Fisher of Montour will debate his Democratic challenger Tommy Hexter of Grinnell as both are vying for the District 53 seat in the Iowa House. Hosted by the Tama-Toledo branch of the American Association of University Women, the event will take ...