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Orpheum Theater hosts open house
T-R PHOTO BY ANDREW POTTER
Tom Curley, right, describes the auditorium area of the Orpheum Theater to Mike Bergman and Amandine Papillon during an open house held Saturday night in conjunction with the Holiday Stroll. Papillon is an exchange student from France attending Marshalltown Community College.
November 22, 2009
After the Holiday Stroll parade concluded a new parade of people could be seen entering the Orpheum Theater. Hundreds attended an open house for the Main Street theater Saturday held in conjunction with the stroll.
The $3 million theater renovation is nearly completed and is expected to have its first movie showing early next year. The project was approved as part of the Iowa Valley Community College District bond vote in 2006.
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A comfort for many
November 22, 2009
It used to be a place of worship.
The original stained-glass windows still adorn second-story walls.
Back in 1988, it was announced that services to the impoverished, on both state and federal levels, were going to be reduced.
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Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
November 22, 2009
WASHINGTON — Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
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Area family works to rely on renewable resources
November 22, 2009
Self-reliance.
That is the lifestyle Dr. Linda Barnes and her husband, Mark Runquist, have aggressively been working toward the last 13 years since they bought a seven acre farm east of Melbourne.
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Top Headline Poll
What has been the biggest highlight of the Bobcat football season?
Main St. Send Off
2%
Huge Crowd at the Dome
33%
Championship Game
26%
Undefeated Season
34%
Beating Valley
5%
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You've Got to Read the Book!
Fri, November 6, 2009 @ 11:28AM
Now as a book lover I think that books show so much more than movies. They have so much more description, but yet you also get to use your imagination to give yourself a picture of the characters or certain places. Maybe it’s just me, but I absolutely hate it when you go to watch a movie about a book you've already read and the characters are all wrong, the events are just less real, and it just is a complete disgrace to the book. Like take the Harry Potter books for instance, Harry's eyes are green just like his mother's. J.K. Rowling gives an explicit description of Harry's green eyes at least once or twice a book. Then in the movie they zoom in on Harry's eyes or just the face, and you see that his eyes are not green but blue! Now this is just one of the minor changes that they made from the book to the movie. I mean, hello, have they heard of colored contacts. Another movie, let’s say Twiligh.
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Outstanding!
Mon, November 16, 2009 @ 2:27PM
It was a game I will never forget as long as I live. I don't know what it was like to be down on the field, but from the stands it looked and felt awesome. When I went to the UNI Dome Friday, I was hoping for a good game. What I got was so much more. With 3:30 left, having to go 80 yards with no timeouts, needing to convert more than one fourth down (and long fourth downs at that), you won't win those games in high school football all the time. But it didn't matter, because with 5 seconds left in the game, the scoreboard said Maroons 25, Bobcats 28. It was still that way when time expired. Throughout the game, I was sitting right behind some guys from Fort Dodge, one of whom insisted he was held in the end zone on the Dodgers' final offensive play of the game. They seemed to be sitting on the Marshalltown sideline for no other reason than to cajole Bobcat fans whenever anything went wrong. And for a good portion of the fourth quarter, there was a lot of cajoling to be done.
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Vote today!
Mon, November 2, 2009 @ 3:58PM
"Now go out and vote, it will make you feel good." CBS correspondent Bob Schaeffer attributed those words to his late mother after he moderated a McCain-Obama debate last year. It is wise and timeless advice. Today voters in Marshalltown and citizens in other Central Iowa communities will vote in town elections. Is voting in a town election important? Yes. The men or women we re-elect or elect, will be making decisions, large and small, for us beginning in 2010. Eventually, some of their decisions we will like. Others we will not. But not everything in life turns out the way we want. And that includes politics locally, at the state level and nationally. A vote is like saying "this is who I think should be making those decisions" Not everyone feels comfortable standing up at a city council meeting. Nor do some like writing letters "to the editor.
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Just in case ...
Tue, November 17, 2009 @ 3:01PM
If it cannot be any clearer, see this sentence? --- Contact Tammy R. Lawson at 641-753-6611 or tlawson@timesrepublican.com This phrase is written at the bottom of every single article with my name attached to the byline - online and in the newspaper itself. Here it is again: --- Contact Tammy R. Lawson at 641-753-6611 or tlawson@timesrepublican.com Now, this is where you can reach me. If I am not available, you will be contacted as soon as possible at a number of your convenience. I will always listen, I will always respond, and if something is amiss, I will do whatever I can to remedy the situation. As the writer of an article, I am known to uphold this stance and am a firm believer in it. One more time: --- Contact Tammy R. Lawson at 641-753-6611 or tlawson@timesrepublican.com You may even feel better about yourself at the end of the.
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Dome will be rockin'
Fri, November 20, 2009 @ 6:52PM
CEDAR FALLS - It's just under an hour and a half away from the Class 4A state football championship between Marshalltown and Iowa City High. The traffic is backed up all around the UNI-Dome. The Bobcats faithful are out in full force already. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 tickets for the game have been sold in Marshalltown. It's still 20 minutes until the gates open, but crowds of MHS fans are waiting to get in. The support this team has gotten from the town is amazing. Tonight's game will be a tough one for the Bobcats as Iowa City High is the state's No. 1-ranked team and has all of pieces needed to be state champions. Marshalltown also has the offense, defense and special teams to get the job done tonight - and the Bobcats believe they can too. Win or lose tonight it's been a great ride in 2009. - Now about 45 minutes from kickoff, thousands line the Marshalltown side of the UNI-Dome. A huge roar came as the Bobcats stepped onto the turf for pregame warm-ups.
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Andrew Potter
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Moving stroll the right call
Wed, November 18, 2009 @ 11:01AM
Moving the Holiday Stroll to Saturday was a good thing to do by the organizers of the annual downtown event. The players of this historic Marshalltown High School football run deserve to have the spotlight squarely focused on them when they take on Iowa City High in the Class 4A state championship Friday at 7:05 p.m. in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. To give another nod to the team, players will be honored at the stroll, which runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. It’s going to be a big weekend to be a Marshalltown resident, and now people won’t have to choose one or the other — they get b.
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So excited for New Moon
Wed, November 18, 2009 @ 4:50PM
Last year around this time, I wasn’t even sure if I was interested in a movie that involved vampires. I am definitely not into anything horror. I was a little scaredy cat growing up where a too frightening commercial would give me nightmares (not something I’m proud to admit it). Well, my sister convinced me to go to Twilight and now a year later I am in the Twilight fanatic category. I absolutely loved the movie. I admit the first 30 minutes weren’t the best but as soon as they got into the Edward Bella plot, I was hooked. Now, I have read all four books and own the DVD. As the time draws near for the second installment of the series, New Moon to come out, I can barely stop thinking about it. From the previews, it looks like it could be 100 times better than Twilight. I am not so into it that I will be at the midnight showing but you can bet I will be there for the first weekend and will probably see it multiple times. It felt like the No.
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April Thorn
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Dogs have leashes. Not kids.
Thu, July 16, 2009 @ 11:58PM
I hate being in a store when you hear a child crying or see one throwing a fit and their parent is not paying attention to their offspring. Not that a parent has to coo at every sound their child makes, but when the crying and/or fit throwing is excessive, that's when a parent should acknowledge the child and either a) try to fix what is wrong, b) discipline the child, or c) decide it is time to go home and take the child out of the store. (Depending on what your personal child-rearing philosophy is. However it seems some parents are without a particular philosophy or brain, rather.) Understanding that children can throw unpleasant fits in stores and can also run away like an Olympic sprinter down a aisle, I get why parents may find it frustrating to take their children into stores. But at the same time the parents did make this choice.
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