(Editor’s note: National Police Week is being observed from May 11-17.) Andrew Weispfenning took an unconventional path into a law enforcement career, and after taking a hiatus in 2018, he re-entered the field at a time when many others were walking away from it. Officer Weispfenning, who ...
A service provided by the Marshalltown Public Library (MPL) years ago served as an inspiration for a returned feature - the seed library. MPL Reference Librarian Sam Abbott, the person who planted the “seed” of bringing it back, said the library used to have a prairie on the south lawn. ...
Editor’s Note: This is the final story in a series of nine honoring the 32 men from Grundy, Hardin, Marshall and Tama counties who perished during the Vietnam War including one man considered as missing-in-action. From Nov. 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975, conflicts raged in Cambodia, Laos, and ...
Spoken word poetry, a performance art where poets share original works aloud emphasizing vocal delivery, body language and stage presence, isn’t your traditional form of poetry. It welcomes feedback from the audience (often in the form of finger snapping and brief verbal responses) and is ...
In January of 2019, April Long came on as the new director of the Marshalltown Senior Citizens Center after unexpectedly changing careers when she lost her previous job designing kitchens and baths, which had been her line of work for almost 25 years. Due to the tornado severely damaging the ...
The staff of the Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) care deeply for the strong culture of the district, and it is shown in survey results from HUMANEx. HUMANEx CEO Brad Black went through the results of the confidential, anonymous survey with the school board at the regular Monday ...