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P&Z Commission unanimously recommends four-month data center moratorium

As the issues of data center regulations and a potential moratorium continue to garner ample attention within the community, seats were hard to come by at Thursday evening’s Marshalltown Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, during which the commission, down a member after Matthew ...

Teamwork makes the dream work

Before RAGBRAI came through Marshalltown, volunteers tackled various cleanup and renovation projects to help the city sparkle for the thousands of visitors who biked through. One initiative that took off on social media was repainting a large concrete M located in the 13th Street District ...

‘A different kind’ of Democrat

GRUNDY CENTER – After a decade of Republican control of state government, gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand thinks it’s time for a sea change in Iowa. But rather than overcorrect in the opposite direction, the Democratic state auditor is instead asking voters to remember their roots and ...

Man involved in crash near State Center dies due to injuries

DES MOINES — The 89-year-old Gowrie man who suffered severe injuries as the result of a crash near State Center on Wednesday afternoon has died at a Des Moines hospital. Marshall County Sheriff Joel Phillips confirmed that Robert Craigmile, 89, who had been reported missing out of Webster County the day before the accident, passed away on Thursday as a result of the injuries he sustained in the motor vehicle crash. The Polk County Medical Examiner’s Office has assumed jurisdiction in this death. Craigmile was operating a passenger vehicle and collided with a semi driven by ...

ISU researchers develop kits to help stoke the biomanufacturing industry

Researchers at Iowa State University are working to increase interest in biomanufacturing with bioreactor kits that can be used at community colleges or high schools. Nigel Reuel, an associate professor and the Stanley Chair in interdisciplinary engineering at ISU, said students and parents ...