Brooklyn News

Bruce M. Bolen Sr.,82, Tama, died Friday, July 3, 2009, at Sunny Hill Care Center in Tama under the care of Iowa Hospice.

Sioux City's attempt to encourage folks to spend time and money in the city may have paid off.

Brooklyn, Ia. - There's a place in Brooklyn where the odds of finding something you want - or something you didn't know you wanted - are good: the Community of Flags Store.

U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley will speak at this year's annual Clinton Memorial Day service.

Jim Bugge, Tama, was selected as the new South Tama Elementary School principal Monday by the school board.

Postseason assignments for Class 1A, 2A and 3A were released Tuesday as the summer baseball season approaches.

Tommie Joe Rhinehart, 58, of Victor, died April 13, 2009, at his home of a heart attack.

An unattended grass fire led to the loss of a small hay shed early this morning after firefighters fought the blaze for two hours.

In March 1966, my BGM pep band introduced music at the Girls State Basketball Tournament.

A word of warning to those who attend the Des Moines Symphony concert this afternoon: Don't fill up on appetizers.

The Iowa State Patrol identified 52 year old Richard Ricketts, of Houston, Texas as the man who died in a crash January 14th on Interstate 80.

One person was killed and another person was injured Tuesday in a Poweshiek County crash on Interstate Highway 80.

A multiple vehicle accident is slowing traffic on Interstate 80 near the 199 mile marker in Poweshiek County east of Brooklyn.

Six weekly newspapers in eastern Iowa were consolidated into three this week as part of cuts at the Des Moines Register.

It's a sad chapter that local historians will be loath to record. Several newspapers that have served east-central Iowa communities since the late 1800s are coming to an end.

TOLEDO CHRONICLE By John Speer, Editor A 19-year-old Brooklyn, Iowa, woman was fined in Tama County Magistrate Court in Toledo last week after pleading guilty to an illegal gambling charge.

Marjorie E. Wagner, 97, of Oxford, formerly of rural Homestead, died Monday, Dec.