Over the last few years — and thanks to a pair of contracts signed with the boards of supervisors in each county — the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce has expanded its economic development reach well beyond the Marshalltown city limits and across all of the communities in Marshall and ...
TRAER — When word got out last November that Traer was to become the third local MercyOne clinic casualty in as many years alongside Dysart and Gladbrook, the rural community of roughly 1,500 people was justifiably concerned considering Tama County has no hospitals and no urgent care centers. ...
About 10 months after he identified 190 noncompliant properties and presented a report to the city council on the subject, Assistant Housing and Community Development Director Clayton Ender returned to the podium on Monday evening with what he described as a positive update regarding code ...
An Ames man has been arrested on a pair of felony charges in connection with an incident during which he allegedly neglected a 14-month-old child who drowned in a bathtub at a Marshalltown apartment last September. Andrew Donald Smith, 24, was taken into custody by the Marshalltown Police ...
Dr. Lance VanGundy recently released his fourth book “Revealing the Arca Prime,” the latest offering in his epic fantasy series The Rune Fire Cycle. “By day, VanGundy serves the Marshalltown community as an emergency room physician. By night, he builds intricate worlds filled with ...
Youthful literary adventurers get ready — the sixth annual Storybook Walk begins on Wednesday. Marshalltown Central Business District (MCBD) Executive Director Danielle Lekin said the walk will last until May 3. Sixty-two businesses are participating, 10 more than the previous year. ...