In stark contrast to last week’s meeting, only about seven people showed up for Monday’s Tama County Supervisors Meeting.

Head Coach Heath Brown and the Meskwaki girls basketball team are on a roll this season, going 16-3 in the regular season and ...

At the pep-rally for the eight STC girls wrestlers leaving for the state meet, head coach Jason Arp called the group ‘The ...

The STC boys basketball team honored seven seniors and beat the Perry Blue Jays, 75-57, on Friday night, Feb. 13. Both teams ...

I started my career in rural Iowa in 1974 as an English, speech and reading teacher. Our students were top performers and the ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) staff will hold traveling office hours in four counties, including Tama County, from Feb. 23 ...

A House subcommittee advanced a bill Monday, Feb. 9, that would require all wind turbines in the state be equipped with aircraft detection lighting systems, to address landowner complaints about ...

So often in our lives, we settle for surface-level interactions. We nod, we smile, we move on. We keep things pleasant. We keep things easy. We keep things safe. But lately, I’ve been thinking about ...

This week’s Tama City Council meeting began with talks about a water line. The new line will go from the west side of L Avenue to the DOT maintenance garage. It was approved to buy the hydrants and ...

It’s 2 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12. The sun is shining and there is a light breeze. The last of the snow is melting, and the Toledo Fire Department is just pulling out of our driveway. It ...

On Monday, Feb. 9, the South Tama County board of education convened for their first of two regularly scheduled meetings. On roll call, Joe Hanus and Rick Hopper were absent, yet a quorum was still ...

The Tama County Pork Producers (TCPP) held the organization’s annual banquet and meeting on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at the Traer Memorial Building. Some 60 individuals were in attendance this year – ...