Nearly 79% of students who used Iowa’s funding program for K-12 private schools were “already projected” to attend private schools, according to a report released Wednesday by Iowa Auditor Rob Sand. Iowa Department of Education called the report a “policy advocacy brief” that ...
The number of health conditions found in students in Marshalltown Community School District has risen since the previous school year. Lead Nurse Stacey Tool-Crawford presented the latest stats on the health of last year’s student population during the regular school board meeting on ...
Crews from Manatt’s and their subcontractors have been hard at work on the streets of Marshalltown since Monday as a $1.77 million hot mix asphalt (HMA) street rehabilitation project that will affect a total of 18 sections of road in the community is officially underway. With the ...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and other Midwest senators celebrated the findings of a new biofuels study Tuesday during a Capitol Hill briefing in Washington, D.C. The new report, published by S&P Global and commissioned by the U.S. Farmers and Ranch Association, says expanded biofuels demand ...
The Central Iowa Art Association (CIAA) offers free and low cost arts and crafts opportunities for children, teens and adults. It’s a mission the local organization has had since its founding. In 1944, three women, Allene Gordon, Edna Wise and Helen Lentz, began exploring the idea of art ...
Dr. Ivan Sheeler, a veteran of both World Wars, left a towering legacy when he passed away in 1997 at the age of 105, and it lives on to this day through the administration building named after him at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown. On Monday afternoon, approximately 30 of his family ...
