AMES — The Iowa All-State Music Festival has come and gone for another year, with representation from an STC duo and their teacher. In late October, senior Kylie Husak on the alto saxophone and junior Brooks Baier on trombone both auditioned and earned their second entry into the festival. ...
TOLEDO — This week's Toledo City Council meeting had only one agenda item, but that single item drew an excited crowd. Young and bright-eyed Igor Dias was sworn in by Mayor Brian Sokol to the Toledo Police Department, after which Chief Dan Quigley pinned a brand new badge to the ...
TRAER – With the winds seemingly in their favor following the outcome of the most recent Tama County Board of Adjustment hearing, the developers behind Salt Creek Wind (SCW) appear to have recently entered the very early stages of construction along US 63 south of the Iowa 96 ...
MARSHALLTOWN – The work of eight Marshalltown Community College students in Professor Tim Castle’s fall 2D and 3D design classes are on exhibit through noon on Wednesday, Dec. 11, in the Ray Frederick Art Gallery. Student Zeara Kapayou of Meskwaki Settlement in Tama is among those ...
Discussions were aplenty at Monday’s board meeting. Kicking off the meeting was Elizabeth Dolezal re-elected as board president and Rick Hopper selected to be vice-president. After swearing in, the meeting moved to discussions and presentations. Sam Peska presented as the director of student ...
TOLEDO — Many braved the chilly weather this Monday morning, trooping through the blustery new-day air to view this week's Supervisors meeting. The meeting started, as it does every week, with the Tama County Engineer's report. The bridge crew is finishing up their projects; last week, ...
OTTER CREEK NATURE CENTER – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hosting an open house on Dec. 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Tama County Nature Center–Otter Creek Lake and Park, 2283 County Park Road, in Toledo, to discuss the habitat management, recreation use, forest ...
TOLEDO – In what has become a multiyear saga mired in controversy, the developers behind Salt Creek Wind (SCW) – the latest iteration of a central Tama County commercial wind energy project – might finally begin construction following the outcome of a contentious Tama County Zoning ...
TAMA – The morning sun glints off the metal of his helmet as the horse hair blows in the wind, the chainmail clinks, the leather yawns, and Levi Bogue wades through the grass, a vision from millennia past. He's a local boy. He graduated from STC. He lives in Tama. He's seen all over ...
Susan Wilcox fondly recalls the night she met Harold “Red” Seeley at Dave and Sally’s Bar in Marshalltown last June. As it turned out, he and another man were competing for her attention, but she gravitated toward Red. Barely a year later, they were married. “I thought ‘What in ...