TOLEDO - This week's Toledo city council meeting attempted to go for the record for the quickest held in history. Agenda items were checked off out of order with ease. A slight mixup had the first item on the night's docket nearly passed over, but all was righted in the end. Discussion on ...
TOLEDO - As the morning frost fought a losing battle against the rising sun of the new day, locals stretched, yawned, and made their way to this week's supervisors meeting. Held on Tuesday, due to the Veterans Day holiday, the meeting started off like it does most weeks, with the Tama County ...
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 ...
A direct ballot initiative specific to all Tama County voters was passed in Tuesday's election with overwhelming support. The measure was to make EMS an essential service of the county and creating a 75 cent levy to fund the program. To be implemented the measure needed a total of 60% ...
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 ...
If you blinked, you may have missed this week's Tama City Council meeting, as it was over in a flash. The meeting kicked off with a discussion of replacing the pool's boiler. The current boiler in use at the pool has been going downhill for years and is held together with bandaids and chewing ...
TOLEDO - Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County office will host a Fumigation Continuing Instruction Course for commercial and private pesticide applicators on Nov. 19. The program provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program can be seen at ...
This week's dark gloomy Monday morning saw the regular group of meeting goers stacked into the Supervisors room. First up on this week's agenda was Dianna Cowan with a tax sale property. After some discussion, the supervisors approved the Clutier property sale to Cowan for a portion of the tax ...
A little over a year after officials with the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) began the process of reducing Highway 63 through Tama and Toledo from four to three lanes, they held a public meeting to discuss another major change on the horizon at one of the busiest intersections in ...
DYSART – U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) held a roundtable in Dysart on Tuesday, Oct. 22, welcoming Iowa Sec. of Agriculture Mike Naig, area farmers, and several elected officials to Tama-Benton Cooperative to discuss what she feels is America’s greatest national asset – ...