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Education

GMRC Auxiliary scholarship winners honored

Grinnell Regional Medical Center Auxiliary recognized four area students pursuing health care careers at its annual gathering held on April 24. GRMC Auxiliary scholarships are awarded to graduating high school seniors, current students or adult students pursuing a health care career. These ...

Rules on selling, serving of morel mushrooms

DES MOINES- Morel mushrooms are classified by the Food Code as a potentially hazardous food item and may be sold only if they are first identified and found to be safe by an individual who is a certified morel mushroom identification expert.The identification expert must have successfully ...

South Tama School Board tours Elementary

Megan Rosenberger, South Tama Title I reading teacher (center) gestures during a tour of the South Tama Elementary School in Tama for school board members on Monday night, May 7. Members are (l-r) Ron Houghton, Jackie Dvorak, Penny Tyynismaa, Rosenberger, Elementary Principal Stacy Stull, Mandy ...

New principal is approved for STC Elementary

Brad Schweppe was approved Monday night, May 7, to fill the South Tama Elementary School principal post beginning Aug. 1. He will replace Stacy Stull who has resigned to accept a position with the Clear Creek-Amana schools. Schweppe has been serving as principal of Waterloo Lincoln ...

Summer day camps offered in Tama County

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Tama County, will be hosting two day camps this summer at the Tama City Park. The fun will begin at 9:00 a.m. and go until 3:00 p.m. Cost for each camp is $10. Camp is open to all youth having completed Kindergarten - Third grades during the ...

Ranger Roberts visits Toledo Library

Tama County Naturalist/Park Ranger Logan Roberts visited the Art Lab program at the Toledo Public Library on March 28th.Logan brought several different turtles including a box turtle for the audience to learn about.Logan showed a chart of all the different turtles that live in Iowa and told ...

South Tama schools audit shows revenues, spending both up in 17-18

Nolte, Comman & Johnson P.C. have released an audit report on the South Tama County Community School District in Tama.The District's revenues totaled $21,766,724 for the year ended June 30, 2017, a increase of 6.77 percent from the prior year. Revenues included property tax of ...

Toledo Public Library News

Summer will be here before we know it and that means FUN summer programming at the Toledo Public Library. The library will host programs and summer reading incentive programs in June and July for children and adults . We begin by celebrating Children's Book Week April 30th. May 4th with these ...

Conference set May 17 for Health care advocacy and preparing for the future

MARSHALLTOWN - As a health care consumer and a Medicare recipient, you will want to learn as much as you can about the ever changing world of Medicare, Scams and Fraud, and how health care decisions are made by you and for you.You want to have as much information as you can to make your health ...

Stewardship Week contest winners

To help spread the message of Stewardship Week, April 29 through May 6, the Tama Soil & Water Conservation District recently held a grocery sack decorating contest in local schools. 271 students created contest entries.This year's theme is "Watersheds: Our Water, Our Home" which ...