Subjects will be learned, sports will be played and new friends will be made by many Marshalltown Community School District students. The 2026-27 school year began Monday. Students and staff gathered outside to wait for the opening bell and then poured into the hallways in the elementaries, ...
CONRAD — For Shellee Jordebrek, her new business, Cactus & Co. Art & Flower Studio, is more than a venue for selling home décor and flowers; she also envisions it as a gathering space for art classes and a community hub. Located at 105 N. Church St. Suite A, the building is filled with ...
COLUMBUS JUNCTION — It may have seemed out of place for a university professor from the liberal enclave of Iowa City to be holding court at a roadside bar and grill in a rural county where Republican Donald Trump won overwhelmingly two years ago. But that's part of Christina Bohannan's long ...
It could be history in the making: the joining of the Tama and Toledo Police Departments into one. Join all relevant parties on Thursday, Aug. 27, at 5 p.m. at the Toledo Reinig Center to ask questions, give opinions, and see what it’s all about. The proposed merger will have the cities of ...
The Marshall County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) responded to a pair of accidents involving commercial vehicles on Monday, one along Highway 30 near State Center in the morning and another at the intersection of Garwin Road and Zeller Avenue near Green Mountain in the afternoon. At approximately ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday efforts to increase the nutritional value of school lunches, including a push for more locally grown foods at school. The announcement, made in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, noted funding packages to ...
