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Category Archives: Tama County
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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Dec
10
Chambers Ford Bridge is doomed
October 30, 2015: The Chambers Ford Bridge west of Belle Plaine has been closed to traffic for years. It consists of spans built in 1890 and 1903. No buyers came forward for the Chambers Ford Bridge over the Iowa River … Continue reading
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Nov
19
Division in a time for unity
It has been my opinion that while nothing can easily soothe the feelings of a community that has lost its high school, winning a state championship in a major sport goes a long way toward healing rifts. But I’ve never … Continue reading
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Nov
15
I wrote about Dad and farming in the Gazette
Dad is going to stop raising cattle. Bruce Morrison has been on this farm, around animals, all his life. In 1967 he was a member of the Tama County 4-H team that represented Iowa in the livestock judging competition at … Continue reading
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Nov
11
Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution petition advances; meeting tonight
The potential unprecedented self-immolation of an Iowa school district has taken a step forward. A petition to dissolve Gladbrook-Reinbeck has the necessary number of signatures for a referendum, most of which came from the Gladbrook area, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. The dissolution … Continue reading
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Nov
09
Gladbrook-Reinbeck, Denver back in semifinals
Just like last year, Class A District 4 has proven to be the toughest district in small-school football, with two teams in the semifinals. Gladbrook-Reinbeck and Denver will face each other Friday morning at 10 AM (which, if you have … Continue reading
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Oct
26
North Tama football’s worst season in a century
Friday was like this. Since 1921, when football was reinstated at Traer High School after the national period of safety concerns, only one team had gone winless in a season. The 1939 team went 0-8. This year, the Redhawks finished … Continue reading
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Sep
27
Dysart barn part of ‘All-State Tour’
Kyle Munson has written about the Hayward Round Barn near Dysart and the woman who restored it after years away from Iowa. The barn’s owner wrote more about it and its restoration last year, and that page has quite a … Continue reading
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