Youthful literary adventurers get ready — the sixth annual Storybook Walk begins on Wednesday. Marshalltown Central Business District (MCBD) Executive Director Danielle Lekin said the walk will last until May 3. Sixty-two businesses are participating, 10 more than the previous year. ...
STATE CENTER — The West Marshall Board of Education, at their regularly scheduled March 11 board meeting, voted unanimously to give a 30-day notice to the City of State Center to terminate the contract for the services of the School Resource Officer (SRO). The title is currently held by Joel ...
STATE CENTER — Iowa Downtown Resource Center Director Jim Engle and Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) Downtown Economic Development Specialist Jim Thompson spent a long day in Marshall County on Wednesday bookended by a pair of hourlong presentations on downtown essentials at West ...
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series about a joint meeting between the Marshalltown city council and the Marshall County Board of Supervisors regarding the future of EMS in Marshall County.) The final hour plus of Tuesday night’s joint meeting between the Marshalltown ...
On Wednesday, the Harkin Institute and Iowa Environmental Council released a study that delves into the cancer crisis in the state and environmental risks. The annual Cancer in Iowa Report released earlier this month stated that the state has the second highest rate of new cancers in the ...
An Ames man has been arrested on a pair of felony charges in connection with an incident during which he allegedly neglected a 14-month-old child who drowned in a bathtub at a Marshalltown apartment last September. Andrew Donald Smith, 24, was taken into custody by the Marshalltown Police ...