The first shooting in a school building in 2024 occurred on Thursday in Perry, about 80 miles southwest of Marshalltown. At Perry High School, a sixth-grade student was killed and five people were wounded in a shooting which occurred shortly before the beginning of the school day. The shooter ...
Marshall County Public Health welcomed a new director on Thursday — Sydney Grewell. Former Public Health Director Pat Thompson is there until Feb. 2 to help Grewell become acclimated to the role. “She is helping me get started on the right foot,” Grewell said. After 17 years in the ...
REINBECK — A write-in candidate in the Nov. 7, 2023 city/school election was recently appointed by the Gladbrook-Reinbeck school board to fill a vacancy. Jordan Wentzien — a preschool teacher at Marshalltown’s Anson Elementary and a G-R parent — was appointed to the G-R school board ...
After handling organizational business during a brief meeting on Tuesday morning, the Marshall County Board of Supervisors returned to regular biweekly proceedings Wednesday and heard from several local library leaders — both as part of the agenda and during the public comment period — on ...
Marshall County Courthouse Court Jan. 3 • Nicholas Bryant Morgan made an initial appearance on an operating while under the influence-third or subsequent offense charge, a possession of drug paraphernalia charge, a driving under suspension charge and a no insurance charge. The ...
Vivek Ramaswamy has branded himself an outsider and an underdog from the beginning of his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but the pharmaceutical entrepreneur turned candidate continues to push forward and rapidly circle the Hawkeye State in the lead-up to the first in ...