As the issue continues to garner attention and discussion in Marshalltown three years after a task force was originally established to address it, homelessness took center stage during Wednesday morning’s Shear Colbert Symposium at Dejardin Hall on the Marshalltown Community College (MCC) ...
Arrest warrants have been issued for a pair of individuals believed to have been unlawfully inside the old downtown hospital building four days after members of the Marshalltown Fire Department (MFD) rescued two people from a container inside the facility. On Sunday evening at about 6:30 ...
The future of Iowa and the United States is safe. That is, if the compelling displays, documentary, and one-act plays are all portrayed with passion and poise by the leaders of tomorrow — 14 Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) students — are any indication. The impetus was the ...
GLADBROOK — Patrick “Pat” Acton created his first model out of matchsticks in 1977, a church, using 500 matchsticks. This year he completed his 80th piece — Disney’s Cinderella Castle — using 607,000 matchsticks. His career total: a whopping 9,767,772 matchsticks used. He began ...
At the tail end of Monday night’s meeting, the Marshalltown city council returned to a familiar topic that has proven controversial in recent years — the implementation of a franchise fee added to gas and electric bills — and ultimately voted 5-2 to proceed with a path to imposing such a ...
Iowa Sen. Zach Wahls (D-Coralville) hopes to soon change his title to U.S. Sen. Zach Wahls. Conventional wisdom dictates that he will have a strong chance based on polling, reactions and support from a number of attendees listening to Wahls’ speech at Monday night’s “Iowans Over ...