First, the old: The Reinbeck Courier bound volume archives have been relocated to Reinbeck’s City Hall. The story (both at the Marshalltown Times-Republican and Sun-Courier websites, the latter with more photos) references “the now vacant halls of the Tama Newspaper office”, which indicates to me that the one location in Tama that the Tama-Grundy newspaper offices were folded into in 2018 has itself been shuttered. Some Gladbrook-Reinbeck students helped with the move: “For these students, 1998 was a long time ago.” [Ow. —Ed.] This rescue/preservation follows a similar mission for the Traer Star-Clipper bound volumes.
Next, the new: The reporter for the North Tama Telegraph and Sun-Courier — and I do mean the reporter — recently finished a project nine months in the making. Ruby McAllister also collected three Iowa Newspaper Association awards for 2022 at the INA convention in December, but those don’t demand nighttime feedings.