After a public commenter previously raised the issue back in June, the Marshalltown city council considered the possibility of allowing chicken keeping on residential properties within city limits during the final discussion item on Monday night’s meeting agenda. “It wouldn’t be a ...

With state candidates announcing their campaigns for office and making plans to tour Iowa, IPERS might be a talking point during some of those stops. After Gov. Kim Reynold’s DOGE Task Force recommended changes to the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) ...

Barring any major changes between now and the Sept. 18 filing deadline, Marshalltown’s First Ward, which comprises roughly the northeast quadrant of the community, will have new representation come 2026 as current Councilor Mike Ladehoff has announced plans to run for mayor. Marshalltown ...

REINBECK — In an update to a story that published this past Thursday in the T-R addressing the possibility of both a Gladbrook-Reinbeck school bond referendum and a City of Reinbeck fire station bond appearing on the ballot together as part of this fall’s city/school election, Reinbeck Fire ...

Editor’s note: This is the last of an occasional series of articles about the Arthur and Lillian Jones family of Marshalltown who sent two sons to World War II. Lillian Jones lived a long and good life of 88 years, all of it in Marshall County. She died in 1985, four decades after enduring ...

LE GRAND — A year after a previous $13.5 million bond referendum failed with just 53 percent support at the polls, the East Marshall facilities committee — under the leadership of new Superintendent Kevin Seney — met on Wednesday night in the high school commons area to discuss plans for ...