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The parade must go on: Scenes from a rainy Oktemberfest weekend

T-R PHOTOS BY ROBERT MAHARRY The 40th annual Oktemberfest got off to a beautiful start on Saturday morning with ideal fall conditions for the 5K run, but unfortunately, the rain that has been so persistent in recent weeks reappeared as the parade began at 10 a.m. Nonetheless, the event went ...

A decade later, Judge Haney finally ‘graduates’ from Drug Court

In 2016, amidst a statewide moratorium on new specialty courts, now retired District Court Judge John Haney decided to push forward and establish one in Marshall County anyway, dubbing it “Enhanced Supervision Court,” also known as Drug Court. Over a decade later, the court has helped ...

‘This is how you rebuild rural Iowa’

Chris Jones, an author and former research scientist at the University of Iowa, has been sounding the alarm on Iowa’s water quality issues for about a decade now, and the Democrat who hopes to become the state’s next secretary of agriculture focused primarily on that familiar topic during ...