Last Tuesday, Commandant Todd Jacobus accepted a generous donation from VALOR, a veterans employee resource group at Graham Construction of Des Moines. Nichole McDowell created a book drive for the Iowa Veterans Home Library and delivered over 400 books. Graham Construction was founded in ...
A Marshalltown woman who admitted to stealing over $42,000 in total from the Bobcat Booster Club and the Marshalltown High School (MHS) Afterprom Committee was granted a deferred judgment for her crimes during a sentencing hearing held at the Marshall County Courthouse on Monday morning. ...
Farmers upstream of the Des Moines region are eligible for cover crop incentives as part of state legislation to improve water quality in central Iowa. The expanded incentive program, which Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Monday, is the“first of several” conservation ...
A Marshalltown man was arrested Friday over allegations that he made multiple unwanted sexual advances against a victim last week. Gerald James Kremer, 78, was charged with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, an aggravated misdemeanor. As of Monday afternoon, he was no longer listed ...
The State Center Rose Festival hosted its annual parade Saturday morning, drawing hundreds of onlookers lined up along Main Street to watch the entries. Candy was tossed to eager children, filling their bags with their new treasures. Some parade entries helped the audience with the heat by ...
STATE CENTER - Inside Washington #4 on Main Street, retired teacher Julie Lang sat at the front desk in period-style garb, with papers bearing age-appropriate words to use for the annual Rose Festival One-Room Schoolhouse Spelling Bees. “I come every year for the Rose Festival,” she ...