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Category Archives: Tama County
May
12
Central Iowa channels off Mediacom in Tama County
This website has a long-running side project in the Annex, charting the coverage areas of TV stations in Iowa and how they change periodically. It goes back to before the digital era. Today, network channels can still be received via … Continue reading
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May
02
Draft Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution map released
At a meeting last week, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Dissolution Committee unveiled a first draft of the way the school district would be divided up should a vote pass. The district’s PDF is here (Google Docs) and I have replicated it below. … Continue reading
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Apr
27
GR dissolution committee meeting tonight
The Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution committee will have a public meeting tonight at 5:30 in the MPR in Reinbeck. The agenda is pretty short with only one real new item: “Discussion – Begin boundary line drawing.” I don’t think there will be any … Continue reading
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Apr
01
Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution committee meets
Reinbeck, Iowa, March 28 — The most recent meeting of the Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution committee was full of people who would rather not be there. Although there were more than two dozen speakers during the comment period, nearly all were opposed … Continue reading
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Mar
11
Detailed plan for new 30 in Tama County released
When the initial announcement was made about this month’s meeting regarding expansion of US 30 between Tama and IA 21, I noted the text left an opening for leaving existing 30 behind as a frontage road. The map (PDF) does … Continue reading
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Mar
08
Rule of 106
In one of its few non-property considerations, the Board accepted the resignation of high school math teacher Terry Stamp and voted to hire Judith Lyons to replace her. Ms. Stamp taught here one year. She asked to be released from … Continue reading
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Mar
01
The appointment that never happened
December 31, 2015: Dr. Haldy’s dentist office in Traer, on his last official day in business. I was supposed to see my dentist on caucus day. Instead, though, I found out in October that Willard Haldy, Traer’s dentist, planned to … Continue reading
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Feb
29
Meeting about US 30 in Toledo this week
The Iowa DOT will hold a meeting in Toledo on Thursday to discuss the plan to four-lane US 30 in eastern Tama County. It won’t be completed for years, but the first step is acquiring right-of-way. The project statement says … Continue reading
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Feb
17
Clutier’s 1942 championship team remembered
The Gazette looks back at small-town six-on-six champions from eastern Iowa from the first half of the 20th century. (Coincidentally, the listing of the towns one by one is the same narrative plan I had for something else involving girls’ … Continue reading
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Jan
08
North Tama smallest public school in 11-man football
The classifications (but not districts) for the next two years of Iowa high school football are out, and North Tama finds itself looking up. With 107 students in grades 9-11 (the “BEDS number”), North Tama will be the smallest public … Continue reading
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