When new life is born, someone chooses its name. Names are important because the child will be forever known by it. Parents and relatives spend many hours finding just the right word to reveal this child to the world. After all, this description will go with it forever. Who you are is the most ...

I don’t know why the library doesn’t use the Epoch Times. I have taken it for about a year, and the biggest problem I have is getting it read because there is so much good news in it. This week in the Life and Tradition section they had great stories about veterans and about our Land of the ...

Man must appreciate the eternal value of mankind’s inner spirit living forever. We are responsible to share Bible truth, from our Maker and His son Jesus Christ. Christmas is his birth on Earth by Virgin Mary. Easter is his resurrection from death on a cross to eternally pay our penalty for ...

A well-thought-out, creative area in a community sparks a movement of community pride to bring people together and new small businesses. Countless small, medium, and large communities across the nation and Iowa have had to reinvent common spaces and themselves to adapt to changing environments. ...

I read Pete Grady’s letter to the editor where he was critical of Randy Evans' Op-Ed piece regarding the Marshalltown Library’s rejection of the Epoch Times newspaper and the American Rifleman magazine. Grady incorrectly identified the source of the Op-Ed as coming from the Iowa Capital ...

It is an exciting time for Marshalltown! Congratulations to our city on the Council’s decision to invest in the implementation of our community’s Arts & Culture Master Plan! This is a positive step forward in helping Marshalltown become the place that people, young and old, want to ...