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‘Education is power’

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Last Thursday, the Reinig Center was filled with citizens looking to learn a thing or two. Toledo Police Chief Dan Quigley and Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt knew that a scam prevention seminar like this could provide important information to them. Investigator Al Perales, who has ...

Budget business

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The usual suspects congregated Monday morning for this week's Supervisors meeting. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting saw a whopping 25 items on the mammoth-sized agenda be discussed, acted on, and generally mulled over. The first box to get ticked was the engineer's report. They hauled rock on ...

Ugliness and Love

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When you walk into the South Tama County High School, many things are there to greet you, often an art gallery. A table just outside the main office holds several pieces of student artwork on display for people to admire. This month's gallery of glorious art sits on the shoulders of two ...

Karina Cooper’s murder trial reset to July 2025

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Karina Sue Cooper’s first degree murder trial has been reset to this July. This is the second reset in the case. After being arrested in February 2024 in connection with her husband Ryan Cooper’s murder, the trial was originally set to begin on Oct. 1, 2024, before being moved for the ...

Moving up

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MARSHALLTOWN — When Sadie Weekley first came to the Marshalltown Police Department (MPD) all the way back in 2007 after working as a Tama County jailer and as a patrol officer for the city of Toledo, the Dysart native was intrigued by the possibility of moving into a leadership role, but she ...

The eBay fire engine

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This week's Tama city council meeting was sparsely attended. In front of a crowd of two, the council started out approving a resolution to set the property rate public hearing for March 24 at 5:30. Next up, the council approved the first pay request for the 5th Street project in the amount of ...

Year of Jubilee, Time to Pray

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Fifty years ago this month, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dr. Billy Graham must have stunned his First Nations hearers with this bold declaration for them and the tribes they represented: “When this sleeping giant awakens, the world will see the greatest revival it has ever known.” Graham was ...

​​Keeping Your Private Well Water Safe

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TOLEDO – Did you know that Iowa has a unique funding source for free or low-cost annual testing of private wells? Or that some water pollutants are odorless, tasteless and will not be removed by boiling water? If you’re curious about the answers to these questions, then take advantage of an ...