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Education

Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team tours Steckelberg Vet Clinic

CONRAD - The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team took a field trip to the Steckelberg Veterinary Clinic for its October 5, 2024, meeting. Dr. Kurt Steckelberg, DVM, served as the host. He kicked off the tour sharing that Steckelberg’s is a multi-generational veterinarian clinic that was originally ...

A yearly tradition

Ever since Kory Staff first started working as a middle school science teacher at South Tama County 24 years ago, he’s been taking seventh graders on an annual tour of the Corteva (formerly Pioneer) seed corn facility just a few blocks down the road to the west in Toledo. It’s become such a ...

Iowa CCI brings ‘Public School Strong’ campaign to Tama County

TAMA – ​​Iowa’s public schools are under attack. That was the message on Sunday, Oct. 6, at the Tama Civic Center during a book talk with author/educator/podcaster Jennifer Berkshire hosted by the 501(c)(4) social welfare organization Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action ...

STC school board member resigns

Monday night’s South Tama County school board meeting started with a blaze: during the public comments, board member Jackie Ellenbecker, who was elected less than a year ago in November of 2023, asked to speak and delivered her resignation letter. After sharing a bit of background and ...

A community effort

Retired South Tama County teacher Denise Fletcher has a simple motto when it comes to volunteer projects within the adjoining communities she calls home — if you want it, you’ve got to do it. Fletcher was one of several volunteers, many of them fellow school district retirees, who ...

Roberts, Dye crowned Meskwaki Homecoming royalty

King Jayven Roberts, left, and Queen Angelina Dye, right, were crowned the 2024 Meskwaki Settlement School Homecoming royalty during a coronation event last Friday morning. The Warrior football team took on Tripoli in its homecoming game that evening.

Priceless art in the hall

A month into the new school year, and the first STC art gallery is already on display. In the hallway of the South Tama County High School across from the office, several works of art ranging in medium and subject can be seen. The artwork by the STC students was all done in class under the ...

Meskwaki Settlement School homecoming court announced

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO — The 2024 Meskwaki Settlement School homecoming court has been announced. Candidates are, from left to right, Sophie Shuckahosee, Nate Seymour, Sadie Stewart, Tenoch Estrada-Snow, Kiance Roberts-Keahna, Ethan Hainline, Angelina Dye and Jayven Roberts. A coronation ceremony ...

Forest, Aquatic and Right-of-Way Continuing Instruction Course is Oct. 16

TOLEDO - Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County office will host a Forest, Aquatic and Right-of-Way Continuing Instruction Course for commercial pesticide applicators on Oct. 16. The program, provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program, can be ...

Remembering Sydney

The South Tama County community came together for an emotional homecoming football game on Friday night as Trojan Country mourned the unexpected loss of sophomore Sydney Culbertson, who died of a sudden illness last Tuesday. The STC Marching Band, of which Culbertson was a member, paid ...