After six days of emotional testimony, digital forensics, and conflicting accounts, closing arguments concluded on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Karina Sue Cooper’s first-degree murder trial. Right at 5 p ...

Here is a most important thought about goals. Let’s look at some goal related scriptures: Did you know God sets goals? God plans to bring all of history to His goal in Christ. Then Christ will be the ...

Kathleen Keefer, seated, celebrates her 101st birthday on Wednesday, Jan. 17 with her Fit and Feisty classmates at the Traer Public Library. Also pictured are Kathleen’s daughter-in-law and son, Dotti ...

GLADBROOK – In an update/clarification to a story first published on Dec. 27 about a possible oil leak on a Vienna Wind Farm turbine near Gladbrook, MidAmerican Energy says photographic evidence ...

GLADBROOK – Rhianna Murty of Gladbrook was crowned the 2025 Tama County Fair Queen this past Tuesday evening at the fairgrounds in Gladbrook. She was vying for the honor alongside fellow candidates ...

REINBECK – The Reinbeck Fire Department is ready to ‘ignite change’ by building a new emergency services building. On Sunday, Oct. 29, roughly 20 members of the public joined practically as many ...

Last week’s Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, June 30, was like a new jar of pickles, filled to the brim, ...

Emotions ran high inside the Linn County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 2, as the first degree murder trial of Karina Cooper, ...

As operations manager for the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Community School District, Shane Hawkins spends a good portion of his days ...

Fritz G. Cohen 05 August 1922 – 30 December 2024 Fritz G. Cohen died peacefully on December 30, 2024, at the age of 102 in Chicago, Illinois. Fritz was born on August 5, 1922, in Hanover (Lower Saxony ...

Renewable energy can strengthen county infrastructure, public schools Tama County urged to consider Howard County’s experience with wind energy development Editorials Mar 26, 2025 ...

The possibility of Tama County heading to trial over the Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 6, 2025 wind moratorium became more ...