Hundreds of thousands of words have been spoken of and written about Marshalltown’s iconic Iowa Veterans Home (IVH). It is fitting. Not long after it opened in 1887, IVH quickly became an integral part of Marshalltown, a community known for its distinctive courthouse, the Evangelical ...
HAVERHILL — Residents in the small town of Haverhill – pop. 163 – witness its population increase mightily but albeit temporarily from Memorial Day through Labor Day each year. That is when the late Matthew Edel’s blacksmith shop is open to the public ...
STATE CENTER — A building in State Center once described as “the perfect model for a small-town gas station” received official placement on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 16, 2025. The building - the former Home Oil Co. service station – 108 Fourth St. SE ...
At the last regular meeting on Monday, June 22, the Marshalltown city council voted to “press pause” on approving chain link fencing around the currently closed Center Street Viaduct to replace the deteriorating railings so that more options could be considered. On Wednesday, however, the ...
The Marshall County Board of Supervisors got in and out in less than 15 minutes on Wednesday morning after approving a brief slate of agenda items including the extension of law enforcement contracts with 11 incorporated communities and a disaster declaration in response to the windstorms of ...
TRAER – Although local pastor Jim Coppoc’s main calling will always be ministry, those who know him know he is also obsessed with creative writing in any form – plays, poems, sermons, op-eds and even the occasional song. Over the past few years, Coppoc has written a number of new songs, ...
