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. ...
STATE CENTER — The West Marshall Board of Education, at their regularly scheduled March 11 board meeting, voted unanimously to give a 30-day notice to the City of State Center to terminate the contract for the services of the School Resource Officer (SRO). The title is currently held by Joel ...
STATE CENTER — Iowa Downtown Resource Center Director Jim Engle and Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) Downtown Economic Development Specialist Jim Thompson spent a long day in Marshall County on Wednesday bookended by a pair of hourlong presentations on downtown essentials at West ...
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series about a joint meeting between the Marshalltown city council and the Marshall County Board of Supervisors regarding the future of EMS in Marshall County.) The final hour plus of Tuesday night’s joint meeting between the Marshalltown ...