Oftentimes I see buzz and chatter online about our towns. More often than that, I look around and wonder some of the same things myself. If anyone wants to answer these questions about town, please be ...

On this drizzly Monday morning, with dark, brooding clouds hanging low overhead in typical fall fashion, the usual county government onlookers filed in for the weekly supervisors’ meeting. The public ...

The supervisors’ chambers at the Tama County Administration Building in Toledo pictured on Tuesday, Nov. 12, during a Zoning Board of Adjustment appeal hearing held in regard to Zoning Administrator ...

Small town Viking Levi Bogue, stands in his fancy regalia, with his ax. PHOTO BY MICHAEL BATTLE AX DAVIS TAMA – The morning sun glints off the metal of his helmet as the horse hair blows in the wind, ...

NEWS CHRONICLE PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY Harold “Red” Seeley (pictured in wheelchair) and his wife, Susan Wilcox, standing behind him, celebrated their belated honeymoon at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino ...

Tama Mayor Brian Hanus swears in and then pets new Tama Police K-9 Officer Creed. PHOTO BY MICHAEL FIDO DAVIS TAMA – Lying on the floor in front of the audience of this week’s Tama City Council ...

A soybean field in Tama County pictured in late June of 2022. The disturbance photographed was part of apparent excavation work at the time by Salt Creek Wind LLC for a concrete mud pad for an ...

TOLEDO – As the Monday morning sun rose in the sky, it brought with it two things, a brand new week and another Tama County Supervisors meeting. This week’s meeting brought a resolution to the public ...

T.I.P. Rural Electric Cooperative hosted a customer appreciation event to showcase its new building and honor three local veterans for service to the country and to T.I.P. Rural Electric. CONTRIBUTED ...

GARWIN – The public is invited to attend a fundraiser for the William Saunders American Legion Post 71 in Garwin on August 19. The goal of the fundraiser is to raise at least $4,000 to help pay for ...

Jenna Thomas greets Vikki Eagle Bear as the Rosebud Sioux caravan arrives to the Meskwaki Settlement on July 15. The caravan brought the remains of nine children that died at the Carlisle Indian ...

NEWS-CHRONICLE PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY — Former Tama County Jailer Kayla Bergom, right, and attorney Eric Eshelman, left, attended a sentencing hearing at the courthouse in Toledo last Thursday.