MELBOURNE — Melbourne residents may have experienced a bit of sticker shock when they received their most recent water and sewer bills and saw a 20 percent increase in the amount they owed, but as Mayor Cynthia “Boo” Mansager and City Clerk Mary Pothast explained during a recent interview ...
TRAER — The North Tama school district is seeking candidates to fill a school board vacancy. The Director District 7 seat opened up late last month following Director David Boldt’s resignation. In an email obtained by the newspaper sent to Board President David Calderwood, Boldt said he ...
On April 5, 1968 — the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. — Rex Kozak was a third grade student at Riceville Elementary School in far northern Iowa when he learned a firsthand lesson about discrimination from his teacher, Jane Elliott, ...
Marshall County Courthouse Marriages • Rigaud Cadet to Laurette Napoleon Die • Erik Winfert to Brittany Johns • Moises Pablo Pablo to Tiodisa Lorenzo Carrillo Court Feb. 3 • Kelly Jo Steuhm made an initial appearance on a theft-third degree charge. Dusty Clements is ...
NEW YORK — Chuck Negron, a founding member of the soul-rock sensations Three Dog Night who sang lead on such hits as “One” and “Just an Old Fashioned Love Song” and hollered the immortal opening line “Jeremiah was a bullfrog!” on the chart-topping “Joy to the World,” died ...
DES MOINES — On Tuesday morning, State Auditor Rob Sand issued a report on his office’s special investigation into the Tama County Human Resources Department — specifically, transactions processed by former HR Director and Insurance Administrator Tamara “Tammy” Wise — and identified ...