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Judge orders bond hearing for Clarion man detained by ICE

A federal judge has intervened in the case of an Iowa man jailed by ICE after living in the United States for 10 years since the age of 11. Alvaro Anastacio Garcia Tevalan of Clarion recently filed a federal lawsuit against Polk County Chief Jail Administrator Cory Williams, Acting Director ...

Marshall County Supervisor Jarret Heil becomes ordained Catholic deacon

Jarret Heil’s Catholic faith has always been a core tenet of his life and work, and the current chairman of the Marshall County Supervisors, who is a Marshalltown High School graduate, Haverhill area farmer and the finance director for St. Francis Catholic School and St. Francis Church, ...

‘Honoring our ancestors’

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — On July 13, 1857, the Meskwaki Nation, Iowa’s only resident tribe, purchased the first 80 acres of a Settlement that has grown to encompass over 8,000 acres in west central Tama County from Isaac Butler, and since 1992, the date has been commemorated as a Meskwaki ...