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Council narrowly approves four-percent pay raise for city administrator

After an item regarding a pay raise for Marshalltown City Administrator Carol Webb was pulled from the consent agenda at Monday night’s meeting, the city council narrowly agreed to approve a four-percent raise despite pushback from several public commenters. Webb, who was appointed to her ...

Council hears MPACT update as funding cutoff looms

The now well-established Marshalltown Police and Community Team (MPACT) program, which embeds social workers from YSS of Marshall County within the police department and, as of earlier this year, the sheriff’s office to handle non-criminal, non-emergent calls for service, is at a crossroads ...

Curtains up

After years of figuring out financing and logistics, the reopening of the Martha-Ellen Tye Playhouse is right around the corner. Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center (MACC) Chief Operating Officer Deb Borton said they are thrilled and deeply grateful to see the Martha-Ellen Tye (MET) Playhouse ...

Marshalltown man charged with murder in connection with infant death

On Wednesday, a Marshalltown man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with a suspicious infant death that occurred on Aug. 29, according to a press release issued by the Marshalltown Police Department (MPD). On the afternoon of Aug. 29, the MPD received ...