The only wood-fired kiln in the area was constructed and fired up on Saturday at the residence of Jon Muller. “I got excited about these about three years ago,” he said. “Last summer, the Arts + Culture Alliance [ACA] helped me with funding to go to a workshop at the Adamah Art ...
REINBECK — Climbing closer now. The Gladbrook-Reinbeck PTO made a big leap recently as part of its efforts to raise more than $265,000 for a new playground at the elementary school here following an unexpected $25,000 donation in late March from Peoples Savings Bank (PSB). “The ...
LAMOILLE - On Friday evening at about 8:13 p.m., the State Center Fire Department was called to a structure fire in the unincorporated community of Lamoille that was determined to have most likely been caused by a lightning strike. When the SCFD received the call, dispatch advised that the ...
STATE CENTER - A juvenile driver was charged with a number of offenses and caused over $100,000 in damages to his vehicle and a Rose Garden Memorial Wall on Saturday evening, according to a social media post from the State Center Police Department. “While a number of bad decisions led to ...
Just over two years ago, the Marshall County Board of Supervisors agreed to sell the county’s mobile bandshell, which it had owned since 2003, to the Marshalltown Central Business District (MCBD) for the low, low price of $1. Since then, the MCBD Design Committee — Jim Johnson, Travis ...
Marshalltown Mayor Mike Ladehoff made a special appearance inside Mrs. Meling’s first grade classroom at Woodbury Elementary School on Friday morning, and he was there for a reason — he needed students’ help. After explaining some of the basic functions of city government and its ...