Category Archives: Tama County

May 20

Lincoln Highway program honored

Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

October 23, 2019: An interpretive panel about Henry Ostermann, a Lincoln Highway Association official who died in a car accident east of Montour, was placed in Tama County in 2019. A press release from Prairie Rivers of Iowa (linked here … Continue reading →

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May 18

Traer Star-Clipper, 1883-2020

Posted on Monday, May 18, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

December 25, 2018: The former (and most famous) home of the Traer Star-Clipper, downtown Traer. “It is with extreme modesty that we take upon us the duty of editor, for we feel that its paths are not always paths of … Continue reading →

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May 11

Traer Star-Clipper needs an editor

Posted on Monday, May 11, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Through a photo with a Gazette article about two Vinton-Shellsburg seniors who are Certified Nursing Assistants currently in New Jersey, I found out something completely unrelated: No one’s writing for the Traer Star-Clipper right now. Two years and two months ago, … Continue reading →

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May 08

King Tower sign being restored

Posted on Friday, May 8, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

November 27, 2002: The King Tower Cafe on the east edge of Tama. The Indian head sign/icon/logo outside the King Tower Cafe is being restored. The Tama-Toledo News website reports that Berleen Wobeter is finishing her work this month. You … Continue reading →

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Apr 27

Corn Carnival canned

Posted on Monday, April 27, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 22, 2012: The kind of thing at these kinds of things. From the Gladbrook Corn Carnival website: The Corn Carnival Corporation Board has made a tough decision based on what we believe to protect our community members, visitors, sponsors, … Continue reading →

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Mar 25

The littlest cancellation

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The NCAA Tournament. Church services. Dine-in restaurants. Tulip Time. And two sessions of Private Pesticide Applicator Continuing Instruction Course in Tama and Traer, the latter of which was supposed to happen tomorrow. It seems like such a silly, inconsequential thing, … Continue reading →

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Mar 23

US 63 study ‘online meeting’

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Potential changes to the US 63 corridor from US 6 to Hudson are the subject of a recently released “online meeting” from the Iowa DOT. The video requires a signup and nothing interesting happens in the first two-thirds. It’s a “Planning … Continue reading →

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Jan 28

South Tama proposal would eliminate Toledo school

Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Toledo could become the first county seat in Iowa without an active school building. That statement is both accurate and misleading. The South Tama High School building — and subsequent additions in the 21st century that eliminated all other sites … Continue reading →

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Jan 16

The passing of an age, a couple ages ago

Posted on Thursday, January 16, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

“That the ranks of Civil War veterans are being thinned more rapidly as the years pass is indicated by the mortality figures at the Iowa Soldiers’ Home for the year 1919. The heaviest death rate ever known in the institution … Continue reading →

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Jan 14

An exhortation to be there

Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

South Tama sports are not in a great place right now. Multiple teams have long losing streaks. In the past decade or so the school has bounced from the WaMaC to the Little Hawkeye Conference to the NICL and back … Continue reading →

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