The Trowel Sculpture Plaza with the “Tallest Round-Handled Brick Trowel in the World” was unveiled Friday morning at MARSHALLTOWN Company, drawing more than 100 people outside to view the community’s latest impressive work of art. Marketing Director Ashley Swanson served as the ceremony ...
IOWA has a good number of ancient animal skeletons to boast about, all in the name of science. Since the entire northern United States including the Midwest had a host of glacial ice advances during the last 2.6 million years of earth’s climatic history, ice dominated much of the time. ...
CONRAD — In many rural Iowa communities good news can sometimes be a scarce commodity due to depressed commodity prices and the impacts of tariff policies on the farm economy. Regardless, the small town of Conrad (pop. 1,100) had much to celebrate Thursday afternoon. Dozens of attendees ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — A man who distributed, received, and possessed child pornography was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison on Friday. Jacob Samuel Yang, age 37, from Tama, received the prison term after a May 22 guilty plea to distribution and possession of child ...
Since Marshalltown Mayor Joel Greer authorized the formation of an animal ordinance review committee back in May, the group has met a total of five times in hopes of strengthening current city codes and addressing issues pertaining to both dogs and cats within the community. On Tuesday night, ...
Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, “Mark Twain and Huck Finn in a Post Civil War America.” Wilson received her BA in History from Bemidji State University in Minnesota and completed her MA at the ...