Butter makes everything, including art, better. Marshalltown residents got hands-on experience with butter sculpting on July 23 by butter artist Sarah Pratt, the renowned Iowa State Fair Butter Cow sculptor, and her daughter Grace. Gathering in the Marshalltown Public Library meeting room, ...
Escucha Mi Voz Iowa, an immigrant-led advocacy group, is calling for more transparency after the U.S. Marshals Service carried out enforcement operations across Iowa from July 21-24, arresting 61 people, including a vehicle stop amid Iowa City traffic that the group characterized as ...
The Meskwaki Annual Powwow Association has announced that the 110th Annual Meskwaki Powwow will now be held at the Meskwaki Casino grounds due to recent flooding. In a video released to the Meskwaki Powwow Facebook page, Paige Youngbear-Brown used the phrase “Same great celebration, new location.” The event will now utilize the Outdoor Arena at the Meskwaki Casino. A temporary powwow arena will be constructed on the west side of the Outdoor Arena, with vendors placed in the nearby fenced-in area and dancing on the adjacent grassy space. The Meskwaki Powwow Association invites ...
The Iowa Board of Regents has formed a new committee to oversee the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa as it prepares for a fall without classes. Board members approved the committee’s formation at its Wednesday meeting and approved its membership of Regent Christine ...
The Marshall County Board of Supervisors breezed through a light regular agenda in around 20 minutes on Wednesday morning, but it was an item that wasn’t on the agenda — and seems to have become a ubiquitous flashpoint for debate around the country at the moment — that dominated the ...
After yet another marathon discussion on the data center issue, the Marshalltown city council moved on to other business Monday night, including one item that hadn’t come up at previous meetings: support for the Central Iowa Shelter and Services (CISS) brain-injury informed shelter and ...
