TOLEDO – Tama County Supporting Kids in Prevention (SKIP) will be hosting an informational meeting on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at the Wieting Theatre in Toledo beginning at 6 p.m. as part of the 2025 Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative which is scheduled for Jan. 13-17, 2025, this year in ...
A line of emergency vehicles joined a funeral procession on Friday, Dec. 20, to honor the life of a late officer. Sgt Mark Kjormoe, just 48 years old, lost his battle with cancer earlier this month. The Marion Police Officer served for 25 years and was being transferred to his final resting ...
The Toledo City Council meeting this week got right to business discussing bids for the wastewater treatment plant disinfection improvements project. The high bidder, who was awarded the contract, was Scharnweber's. A Mutual Law Enforcement Aid agreement was approved by the council. This ...
On Monday, the Tama County Sheriff's Office was notified about an 86-year-old woman who had gone missing after her vehicle was discovered in a cornfield. She was eventually located safely, though authorities do not yet know where she had been or why her car ended up in the field. Her vehicle ...
TOLEDO - As a fog lay lifeless in the sky like a raccoon on the side of the highway, the usual group of local government spectators cut through the wet, dreary morning to attend this week's Supervisors meeting. The meeting started, like it always does, with County Engineer Ben Daleske giving ...
TOLEDO – Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) helps lower-income households file their tax returns for free, enabling them to receive the tax credits they’ve earned. Last year, VITA volunteers prepared and filed over 70 tax returns in Tama County. ew volunteer tax preparers are needed to ...
DES MOINES – Gov. Reynolds announced on Monday, Dec. 16, that she appointed Chris Cournoyer as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. Cournoyer, a resident of LeClaire, was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2018. She chaired the inaugural Technology committee, from which position she wrote and managed the ...
TOLEDO – After serving for more than 18 years at the helm of the Tama County Auditor’s Office where she has handled everything from county budgets to elections to clerking for the board of supervisors, Laura Kopsa is set to retire. Kopsa, 63, a Democrat from Tama, said her decision to ...
After multiple meetings of policy discussion, the STC school board has set their early retirement policy for the current school year. After a work session, the board went into regular session at 6 p.m. Opening the meeting was Seth Koch and Kevin Nelson using public comments to communicate ...
DYSART – Dysart’s Christmas on Main – the Dysart Development Corporations’ annual kickoff to the holiday season – was held on Saturday, Dec. 7, and, according to event organizers, was another huge success. While Santa and Mrs. Claus were in attendance at the community building mostly ...