DES MOINES – The Times-Republican (T-R) and the Tama-Grundy newspapers took home a total of eight first-place awards across editorial, photography, website, and advertising categories during the annual Iowa Newspaper Association (INA) awards banquet held at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines ...
The fallout from the controversial firing of former Tama County Human Resources Manager and Insurance Administrator Tammy Wise continued on Monday morning as the board of supervisors once again discussed reassigning the duties of the HR department at the top of the agenda. After the ...
GLADBROOK – For the first time in many years, Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) alumna Lillian ‘Lilly’ Bru no longer wears a tiara and she’s ok with that. Over a year ago, Bru, who hails from a farm in rural Gladbrook and graduated from GMG last May, was crowned the 2024 Iowa Pork Queen ...
At Monday’s South Tama County board meeting, work based learning was a lengthy discussion. High school counselor Dan Lopez and iJAG specialist Jill Kienzle presented to the board on current progress being made in that area. Driven by Iowa Senate File 2411, schools in the state are working ...
On Monday, it took everyone longer to take a seat than to actually have the Toledo City Council meeting. In a 'blink or you'll miss it event,’ the council meeting had a lone agenda item. Andrew Bunce was sworn into office as a City of Toledo Police Officer. Bunce is 46, married with ...
In a story that ran in last week’s News Chronicle, Tama County Supervisor Heather Knebel was quoted as saying that PJ Greufe and Associates does human resources and insurance work for all of the Heartland Insurance Risk Pool counties. On Monday afternoon, Hardin County Supervisor BJ Hoffman ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) for its upcoming event, “Roots to Rivers: Exploring the Connection Between Soil Health and Water Quality.” It will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at the Reinig Toledo Civic Center, 1007 S. Prospect Drive in Toledo, Iowa, 9 ...
AMES — More than 11,500 Iowa State University students have been recognized for outstanding academic achievement by being named to the fall semester 2024 Dean's List. Students named to the Dean's List must earn a grade point average of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale while carrying a minimum of ...
Marshalltown Community College congratulates those graduates that have completed degree or diploma work to graduate Fall 2024 and Winter 2025. All MCC graduates are listed by hometown, followed by the degree/diploma awarded. Symbols following the names signify the following: ** = 4.0 GPA, * = ...
IOWA CITY — Ellie Behrens, of Clutier, and Reagan Skovgard, of Reinbeck, were among the more than 8,700 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa named to the dean's list for the 2024 fall semester.