For the last five years, Kendra Sorensen has given all of herself and then some as the executive director of the Marshalltown Area United Way (MAUW), an organization charged with coordinating annual fundraising efforts for 25 area nonprofits and distributing dollars to help them survive and ...

In preparation for the publication of this story, community members who have been involved with the MAUW in various ways were asked to share their reflections on working with Sorensen. The T-R received so many testimonials that we decided they warranted their own separate sidebar. “It has ...

Emotions ran high during Monday night’s city council meeting as a conversation about a proposed alleyway project brought another familiar topic — the condition of Marshalltown’s residential streets and perceived inaction on improving them — back to the forefront of the discussion. ...

The story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov has captivated people for more than 100 years. The daughter of Russian Emperor Tsar Nicholas Romanov II, she and her family were killed by Bolsheviks in 1918, nine months after the 1917 Russian Revolution. However, rumors persisted that ...

After quickly passing the consent agenda and the only resolution on the regular agenda, the Marshalltown city council spent over 40 minutes of Monday night’s meeting considering updates to the animal ordinance and agreed to move forward with a microchipping requirement while not pursuing a ...

Jorge Oscar Sanchez Vasquez was granted a deferred adjudication last Friday by Judge Kathryn Austin. In December, Sanchez Vasquez, 43, was found guilty of first-degree election misconduct - vote fraud, a Class D felony, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $7,500 ...