At the tail end of Monday night’s meeting, the Marshalltown city council returned to a familiar topic that has proven controversial in recent years — the implementation of a franchise fee added to gas and electric bills — and ultimately voted 5-2 to proceed with a path to imposing such a ...
Iowa Sen. Zach Wahls (D-Coralville) hopes to soon change his title to U.S. Sen. Zach Wahls. Conventional wisdom dictates that he will have a strong chance based on polling, reactions and support from a number of attendees listening to Wahls’ speech at Monday night’s “Iowans Over ...
Next Wednesday is the annual day dedicated to environmental protection support - Earth Day. And Grimes Farm will host a walk for the yearly observance. Naturalist Emma Bruck said this is the second year the park has hosted the event. “We host the Earth Day Walk to encourage people to ...
On March 30, a pair of Marshalltown High School students — junior Jaylin Fogarty and senior Nolan Sawtelle — competed at the Iowa High School Speech Association (IHSSA) All-State Festival on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls, and they recently reflected on the milestone ...
Years of planning and waiting were realized at the groundbreaking of the Reimagine Miller renovation and construction project on Monday. More than 50 people were in attendance to watch the ceremony at the historic Miller Middle School, and some accepted the opportunity to tour through the ...
Members of the Marshalltown Fire Department (MFD) performed a “confined space rescue” inside the old downtown hospital on Sunday evening after two people were found unconscious there. At approximately 6:30 p.m., the MFD was dispatched to the building for a reported gas leak in the ...