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 ...
TAMA – Lying on the floor in front of the audience of this week's Tama City Council meeting was a special guest: Creed, a four-legged, tail wagging, K-9 officer was present to be sworn into the Tama Police Department with his partner Logan Andrews. After swearing in the two, Tama Mayor ...
At last week's board meeting Joe Hanus was sworn in to fill the vacant Director District 2. With his appointment announced, one question arose above all others, who is Hanus? Hanus is a lifelong Tama resident and 2002 graduate of STC. A self described family man, Hanus lives with his wife ...
TOLEDO – On this drizzly Monday morning, with dark, brooding clouds hanging low overhead in typical fall fashion, the usual county government onlookers filed in for the weekly supervisors’ meeting. The public comment time, which, as of late, has been filled with silence and idle chit ...
PHOTOS COURTESY OF DEANNA ZMOLEK — Trojan Country came together to honor those who have served in the armed forces on Monday morning with a reverse parade followed by a Veterans Day program in the high school gym. The veterans and their families were serviced breakfast before the program. ...
The Oak Ridge Boys — a gospel and country group that can trace its roots back to the development of the atomic bomb in the east Tennessee town of the same name — have enjoyed unprecedented longevity throughout their 80-plus year history. And while their upcoming sold out show at the ...
Candy, the sweet nectar of the gods; the delicious treat that can brighten any day with its sugary wonderfulness. We all love it, even though we may differ when it comes to our choice for consumption. Some like the chewy, fruity taste of the rainbow, while others prefer the melt in your mouth ...