La Familia Breakfast, Bar & Grill, 1005 Lincoln Way, is open for business. This week saw a soft opening, now through Sunday, with discounted prices, as a way of drawing in customers and getting a feel for what people most enjoy on the menu. Brothers Daniel, Jose Angel, Jose Luis, Miguel ...

The Marshalltown Learning Academy (MLA) will bid farewell to the only principal the program has known — Eric Goslinga, who is retiring June 30. Before getting a degree from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D. and completing graduate degree at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, ...

LAUREL — On a pleasant late spring night in central Iowa, more than 40 attended the first ever “Party in the Pasture” event on Oak Ridge Ranch north of Laurel. It was exactly as advertised. The setting was a pasture and attendees brought lawn chairs and bug spray. A number wore boots - ...

TRAER — It was a long cold winter for farmer Craig Sash as he waited for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development office to release more than $85,000 in matching funds granted in Nov. 2024 for the installation of a solar array on his Tama County farm. But after months of ...

The staff of the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated another year of progress and development in the community during the 127th annual banquet held at Midnight Garden on Thursday evening, which featured a keynote address from Ilana Preuss of Recast City LLC and a pair of new awards ...

Following in her father’s footsteps, Deb Kelderman has started her own little baking business. “My dad was a baker, I grew up in a home that loved baking,” she said. “Dad was a bakery manager at Smitty’s [Bakery and] Econo Foods. I worked there in high school, serving customers and ...