As Class of 2010 Marshalltown High School alum and current assistant auditorium manager Daniel Abens prepared to direct his first solo production at the school, he simply chose his all-time favorite play: “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Oscar Wilde’s beloved satire of aristocrats in ...

Even though they met on the Ellsworth Community College campus in Iowa Falls for their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, the Iowa Valley Community College District Board approved plans for a new building on the Marshalltown Community College (MCC) campus. In August, a new trades building ...

Two weeks after the inaugural reading passed by a unanimous vote, the Marshalltown city council approved the second reading of an ordinance change pertaining to on-street parking and, specifically, the new back-in angle parking system downtown. Public Works Director Heather Thomas again ...

In any community, there are residents who take on sometimes challenging and thankless volunteer tasks to get things done without fanfare. They work to make their town, county, state and nation a better place to live, work and play. The late Larry McKibben, 78, of Marshalltown was one. Sadly, ...

Though he may not be a household name when compared to other former Bobcats who have excelled professionally in athletics or the arts, Thomas Swalla, a member of the MHS Class of 1996, has quite a story to tell. The serial entrepreneur who now resides in the Los Angeles area has led seven ...

Serving as the keynote speaker for yesterday’s Veterans Day program at the Iowa Veterans Home (IVH), Brigadier General Mark Kappelmann engaged with attendees and threw out a challenge to identify what “NSDQ” stands for as it relates to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment ...