Depending on a person’s outlook, Marshall County was either lucky or unlucky when the Wednesday morning storm rolled through. Marshall County Emergency Management Director Kim Elder said the storm damaged a narrow swath. “This was a small storm, at least from what I have seen, and was ...

An ongoing dispute that came into the public eye through a Facebook post from the Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Marshalltown last week took up the vast majority of Wednesday morning’s Marshall County Board of Supervisors meeting as Marshall County Attorney Jordan Gaffney and ARL Executive ...

An Indiana man who traveled to Marshalltown on a work trip has been arrested on charges that he stalked a female victim over a monthlong period even after she repeatedly rejected his advances. A warrant for the arrest of Scott Beckmann, 28, of Auburn, Ind., was June 10 on the single stalking ...

Nearly 79% of students who used Iowa’s funding program for K-12 private schools were “already projected” to attend private schools, according to a report released Wednesday by Iowa Auditor Rob Sand. Iowa Department of Education called the report a “policy advocacy brief” that ...

The number of health conditions found in students in Marshalltown Community School District has risen since the previous school year. Lead Nurse Stacey Tool-Crawford presented the latest stats on the health of last year’s student population during the regular school board meeting on ...

Crews from Manatt’s and their subcontractors have been hard at work on the streets of Marshalltown since Monday as a $1.77 million hot mix asphalt (HMA) street rehabilitation project that will affect a total of 18 sections of road in the community is officially underway. With the downtown ...