It’s been 37 years since Dr. Joseph Pollpeter began practicing medicine in Marshalltown. This week, he hung up his stethoscope, retiring from McFarland Clinic after 32 years in its employ. “I was going to retire last year, but just because of shortages, et cetera, I proposed and they ...
Around the time of Labor Day in an election year is when political attack ads tend to make the rounds. A surge arrives and lasts four to six weeks before election day, which is Nov. 3 this year. Besides the large amount of ads generated for the governor and Congressional seats, Iowa ...
TOLEDO — Ever since she was a youngster attending school in Marshalltown, art has always been the best part of Hannah Mullen’s day — in fact, one of her drawings won an award way back then and was eventually displayed in Des Moines as a result. Now, in a full circle moment of sorts, the ...
While it’s not technically fall yet, the annual Harvest Market is the unofficial start to the autumn season. It returns this year to the 13th Street District from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 11. Attendees can expect to see more than 35 vendors from Marshalltown and Central Iowa (some new this ...
LISCOMB — In 1851, a group of Moravian settlers who came west from Owen County, Indiana, planted their roots in northern Marshall County and launched the county’s first organized church on land just east of the Iowa River between Liscomb and Albion. The Bethel Grove Church still stands ...
Students at Lenihan Intermediate are seeing if they have or can develop musical skills. On Thursday, the fifth graders “tried out” for musical instruction. Some of them had their first encounters with the instruments such as flutes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones and tubas. Fifth ...
