TOLEDO — Last week’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting was filled with contentious discourse. The tension in the room came from a single agenda item; a resolution to remove a member from the Tama County Zoning Commission. The agenda was made public on the county website the Friday ...
Joshua Drewelow, of Marshalltown, and Dean Messerly, of rural Conrad, are featured performers in the current Cedar Falls Community Theater production of “Hairspray.” “Hairspray the musical” opened on Broadway in 2002 and won eight Tony Awards including one for Best Musical. Set in ...
La Familia Breakfast, Bar & Grill, 1005 Lincoln Way, is open for business. This week saw a soft opening, now through Sunday, with discounted prices, as a way of drawing in customers and getting a feel for what people most enjoy on the menu. Brothers Daniel, Jose Angel, Jose Luis, Miguel ...
The Marshalltown Learning Academy (MLA) will bid farewell to the only principal the program has known — Eric Goslinga, who is retiring June 30. Before getting a degree from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D. and completing graduate degree at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, ...
LAUREL — On a pleasant late spring night in central Iowa, more than 40 attended the first ever “Party in the Pasture” event on Oak Ridge Ranch north of Laurel. It was exactly as advertised. The setting was a pasture and attendees brought lawn chairs and bug spray. A number wore boots - ...
TRAER — It was a long cold winter for farmer Craig Sash as he waited for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development office to release more than $85,000 in matching funds granted in Nov. 2024 for the installation of a solar array on his Tama County farm. But after months of ...