The biggest thing to happen at this week's Tama City Council meeting was the hiring of a new City Attorney. Thomas Hillers, a lawyer out of State Center, answered questions and talked about himself for a few moments before the council decided to bring him on. Jumping right in, cowboy boots and ...
TOLEDO - This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting started off many locals’ Tuesday morning the right way. The county engineer began the meeting with his report, stating they have been out blading and shaping up roads. Brush cutting will be done starting at D65 and then moving ...
TAMA – Tama County Republicans hosted 40 delegates from county-wide to the Tama County Republican Convention on Saturday, February 17 at the Tama Civic Center in Tama. The event was chaired by Mark Doland of rural Toledo. Tama County Attorney, Brent Heeren, of Toledo and Nancy Yuska ...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on wildlife areas managed by the Iowa DNR’s Iowa River Wildlife Unit, and by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in Cedar, Linn, Johnson, Benton, Iowa, Tama and Mahaska counties. Areas scheduled for ...
Pinnacle Bank announces the promotion of Hilda Herrera to customer service supervisor. Herrera has been a valued employee of the bank and has a wealth of knowledge in customer service with her most current position being customer service representative. She provides the highest level of ...
Pinnacle Bank announces the addition of Amanda Johnston to its staff as assistant vice president/portfolio manager. Johnston graduated from AIB College of Business, in June 2011, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She has 19 years of banking experience, having worked most ...
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — It all started back in second grade for Mike Buresh. The Toledo native and 1982 South Tama County High School graduate was attending a parochial school in Tama when his teacher told the class that the sun was out, but it was snowing at the same time. For some reason, ...
DES MOINES — Newspapers across Iowa celebrated another successful year during the annual INA Convention and awards banquet at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines last Thursday, and staff at both the Times-Republican and Tama-Grundy weekly publications came home with several accolades. “The ...
Citing the twin factors of declining enrollment and the expiration of federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds aimed to help school districts through the COVID-19 pandemic, South Tama County Superintendent John Cain proposed just over $1 million in budget cuts to ...
On Feb. 3, Toledo resident Naomi Rae Winders was arrested on a charge of first degree theft. Winders reportedly embezzled $15,000 from her job at Pinnacle Bank, where she worked as a teller, between August 2022 and October 2023. A criminal complaint alleges that Winders took the money from ...