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Category Archives: Tama County
May
08
King Tower sign being restored
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
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
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’
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
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
“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
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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Dec
03
Traer clinic undergoes rebranding
First, the good news: Traer still has a doctor’s office. It’s still in the building from 1976 that I can still walk through in my mind. But on October 25, all remaining traces of the independent practice once called North … Continue reading
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Nov
18
Toledo gets second grocery store
The former Pamida/Shopko store in Toledo has become a “Hy-Vee Dollar Fresh” grocery store — right across the street from Fareway. The KCRG story says this is the fourth Dollar Fresh store. A quick Google check shows the other three … Continue reading
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Oct
16
GMG has the helmets, but not the headcount
Almost three weeks ago, KCCI had a story about GMG having state-of-the-art helmets for its football team. (Video with story, un-embeddable. Also check out GMG’s new gym. Well, almost-decade-old gym.) But high-tech helmets don’t provide any protection from being a tiny … Continue reading
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