The first Rally Around Downtown was held in the Downtown Event Plaza on Thursday night. Close to 100 residents gathered on the Marshall County Courthouse lawn to show their support of the community, the Marshalltown…
A new era for BCLUW
CONRAD — Beaman-Conrad-Liscomb-Union-Whitten (BCLUW) students and staff are returning to classes for the 2026-2027 school year on Monday, and they…
Belle Werner crowned 2026 Iowa State Fair Queen
DES MOINES – A little more than a month after earning the crown at the Tama County Fair, Belle Werner…
Vilsack endorses Sand and his farm policy proposals
ANKENY – Democratic candidate for governor Rob Sand spoke with farmers and former Iowa governor and former U.S. Secretary of…
National group releases cover crop tool modeled after Iowa ‘batch and build’ program
An Iowa program that deploys conservation practices across an area, rather than one at a time, served as a model…
Members of USS Iowa crew visit IVH Wednesday
Six members of the crew of the USS Iowa SSN-797, a Virginia-class submarine officially commissioned in 2025 and home ported…
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MHS netters split a marathon
The Marshalltown girls’ tennis team hosted the antipodes of the Iowa Alliance Conference and…
Iowa extends Goetz through 2032
Iowa's Epenesa a candidate for Polynesian Player of Year
IOWA CITY – Eleven of the University of Iowa men’s basketball team’s 12 non-conference games for…
Hawkeyes release non-conference schedule
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DAILY RECORD
Marshall County Courthouse Court Aug. 20 • William Dale Speas made an initial appearance on a possession of a controlled substance-third or subsequent offense charge, a driving while barred charge and a driving under suspension charge. The preliminary hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28. Bond is set at $7,000 cash only.…
Marshall County Courthouse Court Aug. 19 • Charleen Nicole Breckenridge made an initial appearance on two…
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Marshall County Courthouse Court Aug. 18 • Keith Arthur Chambers made an appearance on a failure…
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Marshall County Courthouse Court Aug. 17 • Juliet Arabella Fernandez made an initial appearance on a…
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Columnists
The opposition is bipartisan
Two things can be true at once. Foreign entities have seeded the opposition to…
ICE wants our emails
Judy and Bob White's friends and neighbors call White's backyard King's Palace. But to Judy and…
Judy and Bob White's Backyard Garden of Eden
Socialism doesn't work
Money & Markets
Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the Iran war
Gas prices eclipse $4 a gallon in the US, the highest since 2022
War with Iran delivers another shock to the global economy
Democrats, White House strike spending deal that would avert government shutdown
Your View
Dave Dawson
Here in Ames you are gerrymandered into District 4 for our representative in the House. This means you are stuck with the red counties up in Northwest Iowa. They have given us Representative Feenstra who has refused to take 90 million in earmark money. While districts represented by lawmakers like Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson,…
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A word of caution to the Marshall County Supervisors
Jeff Schneider changed my mind
Obituaries
Lyle Gaston
Lyle Gaston, 74, of Conrad, IA passed away Sunday, August 16, 2026, at Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Grundy Center, IA. Memorial services will be 11:00 a.m., Friday, August 21, 2026, at the Beaman Memorial Hall in Beaman, IA. Visitation will begin 10:00 a.m. until the time of service at the memorial hall. Inurnment…
Franklin "Frank" Albertsen
Dennis Zednichek
Cleo Gauthier
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