Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series on the building of new apartments and homes in Marshalltown by some of its major employers. Specifically, in recent years JBS and MARSHALLTOWN Co. – among others - have expended funds and devoted other resources in the building of ...
GRUNDY CENTER – A Tama County Sheriff’s deputy who was arrested and charged earlier this month in Grundy County with operating under the influence has been placed on paid administrative leave. “[W]e are aware that a Tama County Sheriff's Office deputy was arrested for OWI in another county. Upon learning of the arrest, the deputy was placed on paid administrative leave pending an Internal Affairs investigation,” Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt told the newspaper this past Wednesday via email when asked to provide comment on Deputy Heath Ryan Brown’s arrest. Brown, 40, of ...
An Iowa district court judge on Wednesday dismissed the lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer for the 2024 Iowa Poll published shortly before the election. Trump filed the lawsuit against the Iowa newspaper; its parent company, ...
As Iowa farmers begin harvesting their crops, corn growers in the state are asking Iowa congressional delegates to help lower the cost of diesel fuel, which has risen sharply with trade disruptions from the war in Iran. Iowa Corn Growers Association President Steve Kuiper wrote in a letter to ...
The Marshall County Board of Supervisors officially put a six-month moratorium on applications related to data centers into place during Wednesday morning’s regular meeting through a single resolution that passed by a unanimous vote. As the latest chapter in the ongoing conversation ...
The Iowa Economic Development Authority has awarded the City of Marshalltown up to $2,111,336.82 in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding for housing following the 2020 derecho. The City plans to use the funding for a project that would build 10 homes for sale. Four ...
