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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Aug
11
Tama County got presidential disaster declaration
President Obama notified the governor’s office Aug. 5. The Tama News-Herald/Toledo Chronicle website notes the declaration is “in response to significant damage that was caused by severe weather that produced damaging winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, hail, and thunderstorms beginning June 26 … Continue reading
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Aug
10
This weekend’s important anniversary
Morrisons celebrate 40th anniversary What, you thought I was talking about Richard Nixon?
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Aug
09
Those roided-up monsters are not Ninja Turtles
(Detouring from highways and Iowa coverage because this is important, darn it.) Michael Bay’s latest salvo in his war on 1980s-early ’90s childhoods hits theaters this weekend. I am old and not in the target demographic anymore, I get that. … Continue reading
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Aug
07
100th anniversary of Tama County Indian powwow
The centennial celebration of the Meskwaki (Mesquakie) Indian Powwow on the settlement west of Tama starts today and goes through this weekend.
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Aug
06
Independence high school building deal falls through
It would cost 10 times as much to refurbish the Independence High School complex than demolish it, the city says, and so it won’t even buy the building and land for $1. The Independence school district opened a new high … Continue reading
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Aug
05
Centennial Bridge closed for a month
The US 67 bridge across the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities is closed for a month — until the weekend after Labor Day. The story below from WHBF* goes into the problems of trying to use the Arsenal (or … Continue reading
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Aug
04
Branstad’s ad buy isn’t just for Lee County
The Des Moines Register has found out a curious political-television item (bottom item) in the 2014 Iowa governor’s race: Gov. Terry Branstad’s campaign bought ad time in the Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk market. Technically, Lee County is the only Iowa county in this … Continue reading
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Aug
02
Chelsea Sesquicentennial
July 7, 2013: The backside of the “Vitame Vas do Chelsea” welcome sign is friendly, too. The white pickup can turn right on V18 or go straight ahead on the Lincoln Highway. Chelsea, the often-flood-beleaguered Tama County stop on the … Continue reading
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Aug
01
Iowa State on the wrong end of “Rutgers Day”
The Big Ten’s welcome of Rutgers brings along with it something that isn’t unheard of on the Big Ten Network: Games against Iowa State. “Rutgers Day” today on BTN has not one, but TWO, unfortunate postseason endings for the Cyclones. … Continue reading
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